Diesel fuel plays a crucial role in the prosperity and economy of the country. The application of diesel fuel additives is necessary, in order to improve the diesel fuel quality and to achieve the better performance from the diesel engines. The cetane number improvers which are available at commercial level include 2-ethylhexylnitrate (EHN) and di-tert-butylperoxide (DTBP) and lubricity improvers mainly consists long chain hydrocarbons and fatty acid esters. In present book the synthesis of dual functional diesel fuel additives from vegetable oils and animal fat has been demonstrated mainly using prepared heterogeneous catalysts. The prepared diesel fuel additives have been tested for their cetane number and lubricity improver properties.

Dr. Dinesh Kumar was born in Himachal Pradesh, India in 1980; he obtained his Bachelor's degree from Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and his Master's degree in Chemistry from Bundelkhand University, Jhansi, India in 2006. He received his doctoral degree from the Thapar University, Patiala,India in 2011 under the supervision of Dr. Amjad Ali.