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The text discusses the production process of biodiesel from vegetable oils. It explains that biodiesel is made through a chemical process called ester interchange where vegetable oil is combined with methanol and a catalyst to separate the glycerin from the fatty acids in the oil. Common vegetable oils used are corn, soybean, and rapeseed oils. The process yields biodiesel that is 90% of the product and 10% glycerin as a byproduct.

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Read The Text and Answers The Questions Below! Biodiesel Please Look at The Picture and Explain With Your Own Words! How Is Glass Recycled

The text discusses the production process of biodiesel from vegetable oils. It explains that biodiesel is made through a chemical process called ester interchange where vegetable oil is combined with methanol and a catalyst to separate the glycerin from the fatty acids in the oil. Common vegetable oils used are corn, soybean, and rapeseed oils. The process yields biodiesel that is 90% of the product and 10% glycerin as a byproduct.

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Read the text and answers the questions below!

Please look at the picture and explain with your own words!

Biodiesel How is glass recycled

Biodiesel is a clean burning substitute for petroleum based diesel fuel. Biodiesel is made of
vegetable oil.

To make or manufacture Biodiesel, you must first start with raw materials. The raw
materials needed in the production of Biodiesel are a small amount of methanol and a ready
supply of vegetable product. One of the most common vegetables used in the production of
Biodiesel is corn, although depending on the geographic location of the manufacturing
facility many other plants are used as well (rapeseed, soybeans, flaxseed, etc.). The first
step is to use the raw vegetable product to make vegetable oil. Vegetable oil by itself will
not be what you need to power a car, from here it has to be processed into Biodiesel.

The process for converting vegetable oil into Biodiesel is sometimes called ester
interchange. To complete this process the vegetable oil has to be combined with a smaller
amount of methanol and then put in the presence of a small quantity of an alkaline catalyst
(for example, 5% to 1% sodium hydroxide). Vegetable oil is made up of so-called
triglycerides, which is a compound of the trivalent alcohol glycerin with three fatty acids.
The goal of ester interchange is to separate the glycerin molecule from the three fatty acids
and replace it with three methanol molecules. This process then yields roughly 90%
Biodiesel and 10% of a glycerin byproduct. The glycerin byproduct can be used in a number
of other chemical processes for different industries.

1. What is the text about?


2. What are interchanged in the process of ester interchange?
3. According to the text, what is the advantages in using biodiesel?
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5. Can we use another vegetable to make biodiesel? If it is can, please tell us which ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
vegetables that we can use to produce biodiesel? ……………………………………………………….(general statement)

Please identify the generic structure from the text! …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………


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