Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil and Survey Emissions due to Combustion of Biodiesel

Biodiesel is a mono alkyl ester which produced from long chain fatty acids during a transesterification reaction. Biodiesel can be produced from vegetable oils, waste cooking oils and animal fats. Cost of raw materials is one of the main problems of biodiesel's production which has an important role in the production's cost of biodiesel. Fifty to sixty percent of these costs spend on supplies of oil. For reducing the cost of raw materials for biodiesel, waste cooking oil which is collected from Ahvaz Petroleum University of Technology was used. Physical properties of this fuel were measured by Abadan’s refinery. This fuel was burned in the semi-industrial boiler at 6 air to fuel ratios and one pressure and emitted gas of combustion was analyzed by one analyzer and compared with petro-diesel

Keywords:

Biodiesel , Emissions , Environment , Alcohols , Transesterification