In this
paper, we report on the utilization of lipid obtained from food waste as a low-cost feedstock for biodiesel
production. Lipid from food waste was transesterified with methanol using base and lipase as catalysts.
The maximum biodiesel yield was 100% for the base (KOH) catalyzed transesterification at 1:10 Mratio of
lipid to methanol in 2 h at 60 C. Novozyme-435 yielded a 90% FAME conversion at 40 C and 1:5 lipid to
methanol molar ratio in 24 h. Lipid obtained from fungal hydrolysis of food waste is found to be a suitable
feedstock for biodiesel production.