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Vol.4, No.9B, 85-88 (2013) Agricultural Sciences /10.4236/as.2013.49B015 Base-transesterification process for biodiesel fuel production from spent frying oils B. K. Abdalla , F. O. A. Oshaik 1* 2 1 2 Karary University, Omdurman, Sudan; Corresponding Author: babiker.k.abdalla@ * Industrial Research and Consultancy Centre, Khartoum North, Sudan Received August 2013 ABSTRACT Diesel’s prime model ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany on August 10, 1893, has been declared International Biodiesel Day. Diesel later demonstrated his engine and received the “Grand Prix” (highest prize) at the world fair in Paris, France in 1900. This engine stood as an example of Diesel’s vision be- cause it was powered by peanut oil. He believed that the utilization of biomass fuel was the real future of his en- gine. In 1912 speech, Rudolf Diesel said: the use of veg- etable oil as engine fuels may seem insignificant today, but such oils may become, in the course of time, as im- portant as petroleum and the coal-tar products of the present time. During the 1920 the diesel engine manu- factures altered their engines to utilize the lower viscosi- ty of the fossil fuel (petro diesel) rather than vegetable oil, a biomass fuel. The petroleum industries were able to make inroads in fuel market because their fuel was much cheaper to produce than the biomass alternatives. The result was, for many years, a near elimination of the biomass fuel production infrastructure. Only recently there have environmental impact concerns and a decreasing cost differential made biomass fuels such as biodiesel, a growing alternative. The International Energy Outlook (IEO) 2007 refer- ence case projects increased world consumption of mar- keted energy from all sources over the 2004 to 2030 pe- riod. Worldwide fuel liquids consumption, increase from 83 mi