Oil use edible post consumption in Manaus (AM): alternative for biodiesel production and reduction ofenvironmental impacts

This study aims to investigate the treatment and disposal of post-consumer edible oil produced in the manufacture of food used for biodiesel production, installed in a company in the Industrial Pole of Manaus. literature sources were searched, procedures adopted by the company, collection of secondary data through business in the process. The generation of vegetable oil liquid waste is one of the problems that have contributed among the most significant in Manaus City due to lack of management linked to an ineffective system. The population generates waste vegetable oil every day, resulting from the preparation of food in kitchens whether public or private and in homes, these residues that are unknown for the most part, what is done, they are discarded. The result shows that the production of biodiesel using post-consumer oil, provides an environmentally satisfactory result for the social and environmental, as it helps to reduce pollution and contribute socially to generate jobs and income in Manaus City. After observing its final phase oil behavior can be seen that using simple can techniques produce this alternative fuel that the company has become a matter of survival in the current market, where fuel prices (diesel) has been increasing steadily, the gains from the replacement of fuel (diesel) for biodiesel in the company, come to order up to 60% savings, and contribute to the reduction of atmospheric emissions produced by vehicles of domestic fleet.