| Indeed, as acid, ester, alcohol, and carbonate functions are available, transesterifications, alcoholysis, acidolysis, and carbonate-ester functions can happen. |
| During the alcoholysis or transesterification stage, the oil, polyol. |
| The double bonds can easily be epoxidized, and if hydroxyl groups are required, the epoxidation procedure is usually followed by alcoholysis to form the polyols. |
| An aliphatic polyester is melt-blended with an alcohol to initiate an alcoholysis reaction resulting in hydroxyalkyl or alkyl terminal groups and lower molecular weights. |
| Possible transreactions for polyesters and polyamides are depicted in Scheme 1 and include alcoholysis, transesterification, aminolysis, and amidolysis. |
| The Methanol and FFA's can be added to the alcoholysis reaction to reduce the biodiesel production cost. |
