By-products of global biodiesel manufacturing are a global fact, and can be clearly identified as one of the modern day catalysts, responsible for igniting a number of year's worldwide intensive research activity into human chemical ingenuity. A large surplus of glycerol has entered the chemical market causing closure of existing glycerol plants and the discovery of processes that use glycerol as a raw material for the production of value-added chemicals and even of energy. For instance, the batteries of your laptop and iPod, as well as your car's antifreeze will soon be based on glycerol, the same sweet viscous substance currently present in soaps. This well illustrated book, whilst filling a gap in the current literature, is written in a clear, concise style and presents the numerous uses of glycerol as a new raw material. Elucidation of the principles governing the new chemistry of glycerol goes along with updated industrial information that is generally difficult to retrieve. The Future of Glycerol New Usages for a Versatile Raw Material depicts how practical limitations posed by glycerol chemistry are solved based on the understanding of the fundamental chemistry of glycerol and by application of catalysis science and technology. The authors report and comment on employable, practical avenues applicable to convert glycerol into value added products of mass consumption. Dealing with a hot topic of urgent scientific and commercial interest, this is a true """"living book"""" in which updates will be posted yearly on the Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing website. The book's users include industry's top managers and management consultants and also R&D and marketing managers. Along with technical content of a high quality, this is also a strategic book for top managers of the chemical, biofuel, oleochemical and detergent industries and for anyone interested in understanding whether biodiesel and glycerol refineries are convenient and economically sound.