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The idea to use vegetable oils as fuels for diesel engines dates back to more than one hundred years. Historically, Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of diesel engine, at the Paris Exhibition in 1900, conducted engine tests, for the first time, on peanut oil [22, 35]. At that moment Diesel said, “The use of vegetable oils for engine fuels may seem insignificant today. However, such oils may in course of time be as important as petroleum and the coal tar products of the present time.” Today, over a century later, the scientific community is working to fulfill his dream by considering potential benefits of BD as an alternative fuel to petrodiesel for future uses.