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The paper examines results of thermal analysis biocomponents, biofuels in reference to commercial light fuel oil. The biocomponents were: glycerol from biorafinery, by product of the transesterfication process with methanol of higher fatty acids of rapeseed oil, foreshot and fusel, waste from a distillery. The purpose of tests was to compare thermal properties of biofuels obtained with the use of biocomponents in reference to fuel oil. Thermal analysis was carried out by the TG/DSC method by TG-DTA/DSC machine produced by SETARAM. The measurements were carried out in oxygen, in the temperature range from 17 to 800°C, with a constant temperature increase of 10 degrees per minute. The obtained values enabled a comparative analysis of the effects of chemical and thermal transformations, which occur during the combustion of fuels of a different composition. From all considered biofuels, the most energy-efficient was two-component, one-glycerol with methanol, characterized by an exothermic peak with the largest thermal effect.