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.

How to produce biodiesel from palm oil. In the development of biodiesel the main raw material is still used is oil derived from palm oil. For food or for fuel. The acid value of palm oil was found to be 0957 which enabled direct alkaline transesterification.

Greater than the next best crop palm oil 635 gallons or 2404 litres. Biodiesel is commonly produced by the transesterification of the vegetable oil or animal fat feedstock. CPO is one of the four leading vegetable oils traded on the world.

An overflow system for batch esterification of Crude Palm Oil CPO to obtain Palm Oil Biodiesel POB was developed using a batch reactor shake flask. Palm biodiesel produced in Malaysia is from palm oil which is produced in a sustainable manner and their use conserve our crude petroleum reserve and contributes to our own economy. Malaysia together with Indonesia has agreed to gazette a total of 6 million tonnes of palm oil.

The refined bleached and deodorized RBD palm oil in the presence of excess methanol and base catalyst are then heated to certain reaction temperature to produce biodiesel. The biodiesel product either in pure form or blended with petro-diesel could be used as a substitute for conventional petro-diesel used by trucks and diesel generators within palm oil. Current certification schemes cant guarantee sustainability of the.

This makes EU drivers the biggest users of palm oil in Europe5. The alkali catalyst of potassium hydroxide had been used to carry the transestrication process with methanol. The main proportion of palm oil will still be used for food.

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. Palm oil imports were used for biodiesel. Biodiesel can be produced from palm oil soya and jatropha.