Biodiesel de soja: reação de transesterificação para aulas práticas de química orgânica Biodiesel from soybean oil: experimental procedure of transesterification for organic chemistry laboratories

Abstract

The transesterification procedure of triacylglycerides from soybean oil (in natura and waste oil) to give biodiesel was adapted to semi-micro laboratory scale as an additional experimental technique of nucleophilic acyl substitution for undergraduate courses in Chemistry and related areas.

Keywords

• biodiesel
• transesterification
• undergraduate experiment