Abstract
The process of transesterification of cotton, sunflower, corn, soybean and palm vegetable oils with simple alcohols, including methanol, ethanol, iso-propanol and butanol under hydrodynamic cavitation conditions was studied with the use of amine-containing compounds as catalysts and among them are triethylamine (TEA), phenylenediamine (FDA), diphenylamine (DFA), iso-propylamine (IPA), tert-butylamine (TBA). It revealed that when carrying out the process in terms of hydrodynamic cavitation with an alcohol: oil ratio of 6: 1 and the process duration of 10-12 min for obtaining high yields of methyl and butyl esters of vegetable oils fatty acids when the content of TEA, FDA, DFA and TBA catalysts is 2.5% mass. and 3.0% the mass for obtaining ethyl and isopropylamine esters.