Trans-esterification
and esterification are chemical processes used in the production of
biodiesel/or biofuel from animal fats/oil. Biodiesels can be produced from vegetable oil, animal fats and cooking oil, it is biodegradable, non-toxic and
has few emissions when compared to fossil fuel based product. As fossil fuels
are depleting year after year, the emergence of new technologies should be
paramount in order to produce fuel from waste and renewable biomass.
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| Biodiesel production from waste vegetable oil (Sunflower) |
In early
1970’s acute fuel shortage culminated diversifying fuel resources and thus
biodiesel as fatty esters were developed as alternatives to petroleum diesel.
Afterwards towards 1990’s there was a kind of relieve from atmospheric
pollution from fossil fuel-based diesel and interest started rising on the use
of trans-esterification and esterification alternative. Nowadays, diesel
engines require cleaner burning, the stable fuel that will operate under a
variety of conditions. Read More>>>>>>>>>
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