Biodiesel has developed attraction of most researchers recently because of its renewable resources and environmental benefits. Transesterification process in the presence of catalysts is the most common way, which is used for biodiesel production. Heterogeneous acid catalysts are considered more reliable than any other catalysts to carry out most vital reactions related to green chemistry (biodiesel production), because the production of biodiesel from solid acid catalysts is considered economically favorable. Nowadays, biodiesel is preparing from low quality feedstock by using solid acids catalysts in many research laboratory throughout the world. This article discusses how much catalyst shapes affect the efficiency of catalyst during catalysis. Different types of supports (zinc oxide, alumina, zirconia, and silica) are used to increase the efficiency of catalysts. Supported Lewis acid, Brønsted acid, and heteropoly acid catalysts show good efficiency for the catalytic transesterification of oil with alcohol. Heteropoly acid catalysts are tremendous and environment friendly acid catalyst and have ability to tolerate contaminations of oil resources such as water contents and free fatty acids (FFAs) contents. Keggin-type heteropoly acids are easily available and having stable structure while Wells–Dawson-type heteropoly acids are included in super acid class, due to these reasons heteropoly acids are considered as best acidic catalysts for biodiesel production by catalytic transesterification process. Therefore, this review also focused on the deactivation, regeneration and advantages of supported solid acid catalysts used for the catalytic production of biodiesel through transesterification.

由于其可再生资源和环境效益，生物柴油最近吸引了大多数研究者的注意。最常见的方法是在催化剂的存在下进行酯交换反应，用于生产生物柴油。在进行与绿色化学有关的最重要的反应（生物柴油生产）方面，非均相酸催化剂被认为比任何其他催化剂更可靠，因为从固体酸催化剂生产生物柴油在经济上是有利的。如今，生物柴油正在世界各地许多研究实验室中通过使用固体酸催化剂从劣质原料制备而成。本文讨论了多少催化剂形状会影响催化剂在催化过程中的效率。不同类型的载体（氧化锌，氧化铝，氧化锆，和二氧化硅）用于提高催化剂的效率。负载的路易斯酸，布朗斯台德酸和杂多酸催化剂对油与醇的催化酯交换反应显示出良好的效率。杂多酸催化剂是巨大且对环境友好的酸催化剂，并具有耐受诸如水含量和游离脂肪酸（FFA）含量等石油资源污染的能力。Keggin型杂多酸易于获得并具有稳定的结构，而Wells–Dawson型杂多酸被包括在超强酸类别中，由于这些原因，杂多酸被认为是通过催化酯交换反应生产生物柴油的最佳酸性催化剂。因此，本次审查也着眼于停用，