Biodiesel is an renewable fuel that can be made from vegetable oil and waste restaurant greases by catalysed transesterification reactions. Over 5 billion gallons of biodiesel was produced in 2010. The European Union and United States are seeing the sigmoidal portion of the growth curve in biodiesel production. There are ways to optimize the production of  biodiesel. Economic analysis such as protiability and present worth (PW) of a biodiesel plant in Taiwan is presented. With the revenue from glycerine  by-product recovery and with lower raw material costs, biodiesel may be profitable especially during days of higher gasoline prices. Multiple reactions of the consecutive-competive type may be used to model the methonolysis of trigylcerides.Eigenvalues of the rate matrix indicate a integrating type system.

On techno-economic evaluation of production of biodiesel using consecutive-competitive transesterification reactions

247th National Meeting (2014)

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