This process is achieved by adding methanol to vegetable oil.
What plants are used to make biodiesel. However the majority of the biodiesel production is from energy crops such as palm oil and soybean while waste animal fat and vegetable oils have been proposed as suitable feedstock for biodiesel production only in recent years. Biodiesel is made from plant or animal fats including soybean oil and tallow. The sulfuric acid modifies free fatty acid molecules so that the methanol can attach to them and create biodiesel.
Ethanol is the most used because of its low cost however greater. We are one of the fastest growing biodiesel plant manufacturers and technology provider internationallyThe Biodiesel Plant is one of the Renewable Sources of Energy or Green Energy Source as not likely to solar energy but the Biofuel is having the same flammability and capability like regular dieselits pure and clean source of renewable energybecause the raw material required in this. It can even be made with recycled restaurant fryer oil.
An EU-funded project ENERFISH suggests that at a Vietnamese plant to produce biodiesel from catfish basa also known as pangasius an output of 13 tonsday of biodiesel can be produced from 81 tons of fish waste in turn resulting from 130 tons of fish. Algae farms can potentially be built next to power plants that use fossil fuels. In the process of making biodiesel through transesterification we noted that biodiesel and glycerol are the products with some water formation and unwanted potential soap formation.
In most cases these plants grow wild and are well adapted to their environments. That particular approach allows the use in many vehicles running on diesel. B5 and B20 are common biodiesel blends.
Biodiesel can be produced from edible or nonedible seeds of plants. The edible oils that can be used for biodiesel production are mahua palm tobacco seed rice bran sesame sunflower barley coconut corn used cooking oil linseed mustard soybean rapeseed groundnut cottonseed pumpkin peanut olive etc. Bransby further asserts that using switchgrass.
Ethanol is a type of biofuel for automobiles that run on nondiesel fuel. The process of making biodiesel is known as transesterification. The three substances are mixed together.