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@article{188900,
        author = {Yogita Shinde and Arwa Dhorajiwala},
        title = {Extraction Characterization and study of hydrocarbons from seeds of Ricinus communis},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {4185-4189},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=188900},
        abstract = {History of fossil fuels starts from ancient times where wood was used as fuel for heating and cooking.It was observed that human focus shifted from conventional fuels like wood to fossil fuels .With increase in demands for fossil fuels and increase in population fossil fuels were used up faster than generated. Good thing about fossil fuels are they have a lot of energy per unit mass. At the sametime major drawback is earth has limited amount of them. So with increase in demand we have to go back to only reliable source that is forest. Forest has a lot of plants/trees which give hydrocarbons or chemicals which are similar to petrol they are called as Petro crops. There are more than 400 species of plants that are petro crops. Exudate from petro crops which have fuels like properties are called as Bio fuels.  Fuels made from plants that are renewable and more environmental friendly are called as Bio fuels. Bio fuels are fuels similar to fossil fuels liquid or gases which can be derived from biomass. Bio fuel is becoming topic of interest due to two things 1.Sustainability 2. Renewability.The current work focuses on exploring different Petrocrops for use as Biofuels.},
        keywords = {Fossil fuels, Bio fuels, Petro crops, Sustainability.},
        month = {December},
        }