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Biodiesel is well known alternative energy source to conventional fossil fuels. The most common production method of biodiesel is vegetable oil transesterification with methanol, which leads to glycerol formation. Increasing worldwide production of biodiesel causes considerable surplus of glycerol. To solve this problem, biodiesel production method from vegetable oil via interesterification is topical, via interesterification gycerol can be replaced with by-product, which is not necessary to separate from the biod...

Transesterification does not allow to make full conversion of oil to biodiesel because the glycerol as a by-product cannot be included in the composition of biofuel. The development of methods for full conversion of raw material to biofuel with higher yield remains entirely relevant. Interesterification, a reaction of vegetable oil with methyl acetate, constitutes a full conversion process which has not been investigated sufficiently. Instead of glycerol, the interesterification reaction gives triacetin (TA) which...