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Principle and Processing of Biodiesel Production

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At present, a major industrial technology for producing biodiesel is transesterification. The large-scale production of biodiesel mainly relies on soybean oil, rapeseed oil, palm oil, and waste cooking oil as raw materials. Transesterification takes place between these raw material oils and methanol with the help of catalytic agents, which produced biodiesel. This chapter elaborates on the principle and process of biodiesel production by transesterification. The principle and processes were emphasized in this chapter.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Utilization of Woody Oil Resource, Changsha, 410004, China

    Changzhu Li, Aihua Zhang & Rukuan Liu

  2. Key Laboratory of State Forestry Administration on Utilization Science for Southern Woody Oil Resource, Changsha, 410004, China

    Changzhu Li, Aihua Zhang & Rukuan Liu

  3. Hunan Academy of Forestry, Provincial Branch of Chinese Academy of Forestry, Changsha, 410004, China

    Changzhu Li, Aihua Zhang & Rukuan Liu

  4. National Joint Laboratory of Oil Energy Plants High Efficient Conversion, Changsha, 410004, China

    Changzhu Li, Aihua Zhang & Rukuan Liu

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  2. Institute of Biomass Energy, Hunan Academy of Forestry, Changsha, Hunan, China

    Zhihong Xiao

  3. Institute of Elemento-Organic Chemistry, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

    Liangnian He

  4. Department of Chemical Science, University of Naples Federico II, Centralino, Napoli, Italy

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Li, C., Zhang, A., Liu, R. (2020). Principle and Processing of Biodiesel Production. In: Li, C., Xiao, Z., He, L., Serio, M., Xie, X. (eds) Industrial Oil Plant. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4920-5_5

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