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The growing problem of the carbon dioxide discharges and energy security worries has reinforced the attentiveness in alternative, nonpetroleum-based sources of energy. Biomass is the main appropriate and sustainable essential energy asset that can give elective transportation fuel, for example, bioethanol or biodiesel for the time being Biodiesel refers to vegetable oil or animal fat-based diesel fuel consisting of alkyl (methyl, propyl, or ethyl) esters. Biodiesel can be produced by the reaction of an ester with an alcohol in the presence of a catalyst affording a new ester and a new alcohol (glycerol) is called alcoholysis or transesterification. The transesterification reaction is affected by various experimental parameters, such as molar ratio of alcohol to oil, catalyst percentage, reaction time and as well as the reaction temperature.