Abstract—Recycled waste cooking oil is harmful to health, but it is not environmental friendly to dispose used cooking oil just like that. The best solution is to used it for industrial purposes, namely to reproduce into biodiesel. Waste cooking oil is collected from chip cracker Factory in Johor. This project is to produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil using pilot plant and the biodiesel tested in the laboratory. The pilot plants are continuous system to produce biodiesel. The biodiesel was blended with diesel oil to get B5 and B10 grade biodiesel. It produces biodiesel based on the American biodiesel standard ASTM6751. The application of this biodiesel has enabled the company to use its waste cooking oil without having to dispose it and this has save cost to the company. The other advantage is that it has significantly help to preserve environment and as well as conversion of waste to useful energy. The biodiesel plant has also motivated the staff towards thinking about environment and also alternative energy thus sustaining its operation.

Index Terms—Biodiesel, waste cooking oil, pilot plant, alternative energy

Cite: Nor Hazwani Abdullah, Sulaiman Haji Hasan, and Nurrul Rahmah Mohd Yusoff, "Biodiesel Production Based on Waste Cooking Oil (WCO)," International Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 94-99, December 2013. doi: 10.12720/ijmse.1.2.94-99