TT No. 576: Glycerolysis of Free Fatty Acids for the Production of Fatty Acid Methyl Ester (FAME)
A solvent-free glycerolysis process has been developed to convert free fatty acids (FFA) into neutral oil using fatty acids distillates from vegetable oil refinery. The process is a catalystfree reaction and able to achieve 98% conversion of FFA into neutral oil. The neutral oil produced can be transesterified into fatty acid methyl ester (FAME). The […]