Clean Energy Transition

Raw materials and utilities cost Biodiesel is the product obtained when a vegetable oil or an animal fat reacts chemically with an alcohol to produce fatty acid alkyl esters. A catalyst such as sodium or potassium hydroxide is required. Glycerol is produced as a co-product (Van Gerpen et al., 2004). The most common stoichiometries description of the reaction is: 1000 kg of oil þ 110 kg of methanol/1000 kg of biodiesel þ 110 kg of glycerol