This study deals with ethyl esters obtainment by using three neutralization soapstock generated from the refining process of Buriti oil, Passion fruit and Brazilian nut (Pará nut). At first, acidification of blots was performed to obtain fatty acids concentration, in order to do so it was used a reagent sulfuric acid leaving to react for 50 min at a temperature of around 85 ° C. Moreover, there was formation of three phases: oil component, fat emulsion and phase acidic water, the supernatant phase (oil component) of interest in the possible presence of fatty acids. Characterization by gas chromatography lees of three samples was performed to quantify the fatty acids present therein, the molar masses were determined and also the acid value. The oil components resulting from the acidification reaction were characterized by a saponification number, acid number and the conversion ratios which have the following values: for burity 96.5%, 94.2% for passion fruit and 90.4% and for Brazilian nut. The acidification of the product (oil component) of burity, passion fruit and Brazilian nut were subjected to esterification reaction, in which ethanol was used as a reactant molar ratio 1:30 (oil: ethanol) and 5% catalyst (in relation to the mass of the oil component). The reaction occurred for 60 minutes at a temperature of about 90 ° C. The same parameters were applied for the three reactions. The characterization of ethyl esters was determined by some quality parameters required by ANP, as acidity index, bulk density, kinematic viscosity at 40 ° C and also the content of ethyl esters present in the sample. The rates of conversion of oil components to ethyl esters showed the following percentage: 93.42% (buriti), 91.71% (passion fruit) and 89.38% (Brazilian nut). Despite the higher conversion into ethyl esters have been observed for the Buriti, samples of passion fruit and Brazilian nutt, also had satisfactory results, as those values revealed that the samples have high potential for reuse serving as raw material for production biodiesel.
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