India's first biodiesel plant has started production
Filed under: Biodiesel
Last Saturday, India's first biodiesel plant started production in Kakinada, a citi in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The facility, owned by Naturol Bioenergy, is expected to produce 30 million gallons of biodiesel per year obtained from Jathropa and using Belgian technology.According to the company, biodiesel costs less than normal diesel, although it's sold at a similar price. World biodiesel consumption was about 5 million tons in 2006, but it's expected to reach 100 million by 2016.
Other Indian green energy companies include Suzlon, which invests in windmills, and Moser Baer, working on solar panels. They all want to get their part in the alternative energy market, which is considered a great opportunity for business. We'll see what Greenpeace thinks about Jathropa biodiesel in India.
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10-29-2007 @ 10:03AM
Dr. Ahmed Baosman said...
Feedstock is not problem, right technology will lead biodisel industry. Plantation of Jatropha, pongamia, ect. is different sector and processing of biodiesel is different sector.In order to sustain biodiesel industry, the technology is very important which has the ability to handle multifeedstocks readily available, it will be better if it is locally available and cheap such as used oil, yellow grease, trap grease or any combination and still meets the ASTM standard to avoid harm the vehicles. As we all know there are Technology Issues. Conventional Biodiesel manufactured cost and quality are directly related to the type of technology employed in the process. All processes worldwide use similar technology and have restrictions on the type of oil to be used. For example, base catalysis systems can only use high grade, high cost oils that are very low in free fats. This restriction allows manufacturers to develop their own process technology based on hundreds of years of experience. This is the basic soap manufacturing process and has the lowest capital cost, typically which is still in millions of dollars for a small plant. Typical operating costs are $0.50 to $0.80 per gallon. A typical yield from this plant operation is 93 – 95%. These operations require either water washing stages or ion exchange for waterless fuel contaminate process cleanup after reaction. Most States heavily monitor water discharges from Biodiesel plants, and most of these have converted to waterless technologies. Ion exchange is a costly process and adds cost per gallon, depending on product quality. Low yield, high costs, and limited oil type used by these processes will eliminate them from the market in the near future.
The second level of technology capable of utilizing lower cost oils but requires a costly two step process, acid/base catalysis. Yield is low but it can convert low cost oils into biodiesel. The down side, plants cost twice as much as a base catalysis technology and are very complicated systems. A typical yield from this plant operation is 85% or less.
Contrary to this ECR has developed with years of research and development Heterogeneous catalytic system that can handle efficiently with minimum dose of chemical catalyst to handle any comination of feedstock irrespective of whatever FFA contents in the oil. In fact, higher FFA is better for higher btu value in biodiesel.ECR’s technology is capable of efficiently processing lower cost oils while maintaining high quality meeting ASTM standard is a market opportunity that few in the world today is used as an advantage.
ECR’s Technical Advantages;
• Lowest capital cost, about 1/3 less than competitors
• Lowest operating cost
• Highest quality
• Highest yield, approximately 27% better than competition
Any body is interested may contact us for further details.
ahmed_baosman@hotmail.com
Dr. A Baosman
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11-08-2007 @ 1:42AM
Amit Singhvi said...
Want to know about churu bio diesel .
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7-24-2008 @ 4:51AM
shishir hingu said...
In developing country like India it is better to use non-edible oil for biodiesel production, because we cannot afford to use a pure virgin oil. But India consumes large amount of oil, so it is also better to use wate cooking oil as feedstock for biodiesel production.awareness must be created among the people (resturants people) so that the waste oil which is produced should be collected at one point so that the problem of dumping waste oil could be solved.And the cost of raw material which is used for biodiesel is reduced.
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