“…The usual industrial process for the hydrolysis to take place, the Colgate-Emery process, entails high temperature (at least 250°C) and pressure (4.82 MPa) ( Barnebey and Brown, 1948), implying in a high energy cost in addition to undesirable reactions and by-products formation (Rooney and Weatherley, 2001). Oil hydrolysis can also be performed by employing chemical catalysts (Da Silva et al, 2016;Devaraj et al, 2018;Ong et al, 2016), enzymatic catalysts (lipases) (Cavalcanti-Oliveira et al, 2010;Corradini et al, 2019;de Sousa et al, 2010;El-Hefnawy and Sakran, 2014;Goñi et al, 2018;Santos et al, 2013), using subcritical water (Almeida et al, 2017;dos Santos et al, 2019;Ilham and Saka, 2010;Xiao et al, 2017) or other less conventional methods as microwave irradiation (Nguyen et al, 2020) and the use of ionic liquids (Han et al, 2019).…”