Abstract: Biodiesel is a good replacement diesel that is manufactured from vegetable oils, recycled cooking oils, and so on. FAME(fatty acid methyl ester) biodiesel from vegetable oils is a perfect substitute fuel, because the raw material can be produced from sunlight and renewable. In the paper, the progress in manufacturing and development of FAME biodiesel were discussed, including biosynthsis, storage and metabolism of vegetable oils, acid catalyzed, base catalyzed and supercritical catalytic manufacturing procedure, and standardization of biodiesel quality control. Meanwhile, the possibility and profound significance of growing biodiesel industry in China were enucleated.

Key words: biodiesel, manufacturing technique, quality standard, quality control