The acid value of palm oil was found to be 0957 which enabled direct alkaline transesterification.

How to produce biodiesel from palm oil. As the world continues to seek alternatives to fossil fuels many products have been evaluated but few are as efficient to produce as palm oil biodiesel. All about Palm Oil. Biodiesel has been produced from a variety of sources including refined and crude vegetable oils residues from vegetable oil extraction used cooking oils and animal grease or tallow.

This is how it works. The aim of the project is to make biodiesel from palm oil by Transesterification reaction. There are several methods for carrying out this transesterification reaction including the common batch process supercritical processes ultrasonic methods and even microwave methods.

The process uses water and methanol to convert the fatty acids in POME oil into biodiesel. The production of algae to harvest oil for biodiesel has not yet been undertaken on a commercial scale but feasibility studies have been conducted to arrive at the above yield estimate. Biodiesel is commonly produced by the transesterification of the vegetable oil or animal fat feedstock.

As converting a hectare of palm oil into biodiesel saves approximately six tonnes of CO 2 emissions annually it takes 80 to 150 years of production to offset the initial emissions released from deforestation. In Colombia the biodiesel is produced from the palm oil and methanol being the last imported to meet the demand in the biodiesel production. The study showed that palm-oil biodiesel from the first-rotation cycle of palms produces 98 more emissions than fossil fuel.

In 2016 48 of all the imports were used in transport. CPO is one of the four leading vegetable oils traded on the world. In the development of biodiesel the main raw material is still used is oil derived from palm oil.

Malaysian palm biodiesel is therefore a sustainable energy. In the past two years the biodiesel production from Palm was between 300000 litersday to 965000 liters per day distributed in four plants located in the Atlantic coast and in the country center. Europeans are increasingly eating less and less palm oil and instead are inadvertently burning more and more in cars and trucks.