“…The drawback of the GC method is that it is time consuming in terms of sample preparation and analysis and therefore it is not suitable for biodiesel process monitoring. Other methods reported to have been used to monitor or analyze biodiesel production include HPLC (Holcapek et al, 1999;Komers et al, 2001;Türkan and Kalay, 2006), gel permeation chromatography (GPC) (Dubé et al, 2004), size-exclusion chromatography (Arzamendi et al, 2006), NMR (Gelbard et al, 1995) and FTIR spectroscopy (Zagonel et al, 2004;Knothe, 2006;Trevisan et al, 2008), Raman spectroscopy (Chesti et al, 2006) as well as viscometric analysis (Ellis et al, 2008). Among these methods, FTIR spectroscopy is one of the only methods that have the potential to provide real time qualitative and quantitative biodiesel process information without extensive sample preparation.…”