The global glycerol market became instable because of the increasing supply of glycerol from biofuel prodn. A dramatic redn. of the glycerol price was lately observed. The possibilities for processing glycerol to epichlorohydrin, propylene glycol, propanediol-1,3, dihydroxyacetone, glycerol esters and ethers, acrolein, acrylic acid, MeOH, hydrocarbons and H were discussed.