This process is used on an industrial scale with annual production of 150.000 tons.
A daily production of up to 10.5 tons is possible.
After 1946 five plants with summary annual production of 20 tons were constructed.
In 1970 soybeans covered only 54,600 hectares and had an annual production of over 75,000 tons.
With production of 800,000 tons annually, it is the largest renewable diesel plant in the world.
Last year's production of 90.8 million metric tons will probably be off about 2 to 5 percent for the year, analysts said.
Between 1900 and 1912, a monthly production of 4000 tons was recorded.
Many analysts expect Zairean production of 180,000 tons this year.
It had an average annual production of 7,000 tons.
This will require a production of 923,000 to 1 million tons of cane.