Abstract
This chapter gives a systematic exploitation of the residual fatty materials of the globally produced waste animal fat (WAF) from the meat and fish processing industries for biodiesel production. A short overview of generation, sources and the trend in the development of its technologies is discussed. Biodiesel production from waste material sources, WAF and the environment, biodiesel from WAF with highlights on the stages, methods, reactors, downstream processing techniques and the question of ‘biodiesel from WAF versus standard biodiesel’ is examined. Furthermore, a critical consideration of the transesterification of WAF to biodiesel with insights into criteria for transesterification and methods of analysis, catalytic methods, factors affecting the reactions and the kinetics is presented. The chapter analyzed a preliminary techno-economic feasibility of biodiesel production from WAF weighing the challenges of large-scale production from WAF via transesterification concludes by elucidation of the outlook for biodiesel production from WAF.
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