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With the increase in crude oil prices use to day by day life, the need for development of economically attractive alternate fuels has increased. Production of biodiesel from all waste cooking oil is one such raw materials or alternative. The project involves setting up of a laboratory scale production unit for biodiesel Conversion from waste cooking oil, collected from different sources. Methanol, with sodium hydroxide nd other components as a catalyst, Reacts with the waste oil in the Transesterification process in the our laboratory producing fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) with glycerine as a by product. Properties of a our sample including density, viscosity, flash point, pour point, sulphur content, cetane index are tested according to ASTM standards and compared with those of petroleum diesel, establishing the sample as complete biodiesel. The project will also include blending of biodiesel with petroleum diesel and their properties to be tested and to be compared. The production of biodiesel from waste cooking oil offers economic and environmental solutions along with waste management. The project, thus aims at utilizing leftover cooking oil, for a possible conversion to biodiesel.