Tag: Biodiesel Technology

Biodiesel, also known as fatty acid methyl esters (Fatty Acid Ester) uses the fruit of plants, seeds, vegetable oils or animal fat milk ducts, waste cooking oil and others as materials. It is obtained by lactide reaction (Transesterification reaction) with alcohols (methanol, ethanol). German engineer Dr. Rudolf Diesel (1858-1913) first mentioned the concept of biodiesel.

Biodiesel technology refers to transesterification process to replace waste oil into renewable diesel fuels. Biodiesel is able to obtain from a large variety of animal or vegetable oils including soybean oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil, pistacia oil, other wild plant oil, algae, aquatic plants, food waste oil etc. Which kind of waste oil can be