Patent ID: 8956836
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: C10G,C10L,C11C,C12P,Y02E,Y02P

Abstract:
1. A process for the preparation of Jatropha Methyl Ester and byproducts comprising the steps of: (a) expelling oil, oil cake and waste oil sludge from (b) neutralizing the (c) transesterifying a first portion of the (d) washing the crude (e) treating a second portion of the (f) treating a third portion of the (g) optionally treating a further portion of wherein, in steps (e)-(g), unreacted alcohol in the respective crude glycerol layer, the first and second impure glycerol layers and the further glycerol layer are reactants in the transesterifying of at least the respective second and third portions of the