Transesterification of Waste Oils for Sustainable Transport in the Tourism Sector

This research aims to analyse the properties of biodiesel obtained from residual oils that have been collected in sites dedicated to community tourism, taking into consideration that at present, Ecuador does not have solid strategies to recycle and rationally reuse the volume of residual oils generated in the preparation of food in different sectors. In the tourism field, the generation of residual oils is not an isolated case, residual oils, produced in food preparation, are generally discarded; However, this work developed a strategy for obtaining biodiesel from waste oils, defining the reagents necessary for the development of the chemical reaction called transesterification, from which biodiesel was obtained that will be used as biofuel and on the other hand the glycerine which will be used as a degreaser, the necessary reagents were fixed from the bibliographic investigation, and then proceeded to characterise the oil used as raw material, for later carry out the experimental phase to analyse the physical and chemical properties at laboratory level, finally used in an internal combustion engine diesel obtaining an average opacity level of 16%, with these values proceeds to validate the application of the product obtained in agricultural machinery commonly used in tourism community.