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Biodiesel from Household/Restaurant Waste Cooking Oil (WCO)
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The use of waste cooking oil (WCO) from extended household and restaurants was considered as a suitable
feedstock for biodiesel production in this paper. The paper also focuses to showcase the qualities of biodiesel
produced from WCO compared to that of other virgin oil. The oil that was supposed to be disposed, at times
indiscriminately was de-odoured and purified using appropriate solvents. The purified oil was characterized and used
for biodiesel production. The physical and fuel properties such as density, viscosity, cloud point, pour point, cetane
number etc were determined according to ASTM standards. The properties obtained were not only comparable with
that of others but also within standard limits