The carbonation of epoxydized vegetable oil was studied by using tetra-nbutylammonium bromide (TBAB) as catalyst. Thermal stability of TBAB was studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and it was demonstrated that the maximum reaction temperature should not exceed 130°C. Reaction conditions were optimum at 130°C, 50 bar, with 3.5% mol of catalyst. The gas-liquid mass transfer coefficient and solubility of CO 2 were determined by taking into account the non-ideality of the gas phase using PengRobinson state equations. At 130°C, the CO 2 solubility was found to be independent from epoxide conversion and equal to 0.57 mol.L -1 , and the gas liquid mass transfer coefficient (k L a) decrease with the epoxide conversion, i.e., at 0 % of conversion k L a = 0.0249 s -1 and at 94 % of conversion k L a = 0.0021 s -1 .