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Bio-diesel Production

BIO-DIESEL CLUSTER for SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT

Merging energy crop into local economy

Why Bio-diesel?
The Answer To Combat Global Warming

Bio-diesel is the name of a clean burning alternative fuel, produced from domestic, renewable resources such as vegetable oils or animal fats. Crude bio-diesel contains no petroleum. It can be blended at any level with petroleum diesel to create a Bio-diesel blend. It can be used in compression-ignition (diesel) engines with little or no modifications. Bio-diesel is simple to use, biodegradable, nontoxic, and essentially free of sulfur and aromatics.

There are over 80 known species of oil seeds having the potential to produce bio-diesel in commercial quantity. However, many other factors must be taken into account before the right species may be selected. Factors such as local climate and soil conditions, farming community, transportation and government incentives.

Land Use in South East Asian Economies

Apart from the city state of Singapore, the economy of all the other South East Asian countries are dominated by agricultural produces. Oil Palm plantation has over the last 20 years overtaken rubber as the most dominant landscape. With surging crude palm oil price towards historic high, this change in trend is hardly surprising.

Traditionally, palm oil is used to produce food and cosmetic products for the consumer market. Recent development in bio-fuel technology using palm oil has clouded this traditional outlook especially when world demand for petroleum products is pushing crude oil price to the high $60/barrel. Some have voiced concern over the use of palm oil as material for bio-fuel production. In the future, human being may have to compete with cars for cooking oil.

In today's modern agricultural economy, land scarcity must be a factor. With surging crude palm oil price in recent years, competition for quality land mass is in the high gear. It is therefore a challenge to acquire accessible land to produce bio-diesel.

Apart from that, there is little market encouragement to invest in bio-diesel projects given the highly distorted retail petroleum prices brought about by years of government subsidies.

Considering all those factors, we have found Jatropha Curcas to offer the best potential in South East Asia given its unique property to grow in dry land.

Why Rural Bio-diesel Cluster?

Reduce dependence on expensive primary fuel sources
Reduce carbon emissions. Many alternative Bio-diesel fuels have been shown to have better exhaust emissions than traditional Diesel fuel.
Bio-diesel is renewable.
Bio-diesel is non toxic and bio degradable.
Bio-diesel is an agricultural project which have direct positive impact for rural development, reduce energy poverty and narrowing income disparity

Why Using Bio-diesel?

Bio-diesel includes a high cetane number, low sulphur , low volatility and the presence of Oxygen atoms in the fuel molecule.
Bio-diesel performs better than the Petroleum diesel.
Jatropha Bio-diesel readily mixes with diesel fuel and it runs in any diesel engine without modification.
Reduces serious air pollutants such as particulates, carbon monoxides, hydrocarbons and air toxic.
Mutagencity studies shows that bio diesel dramatically reduces potential risks of cancer and birth defects.

Economical Benefits

National security: Bio-diesel can be made domestically, so it reduces our dependency on foreign oil.
National economy: Using Bio-diesel keeps our fuel buying money at home instead of sending it to foreign countries. This reduces countries' trade deficit and creates jobs.

What's Bio-Diesel?

Chemically, it comprises a mix of mono-alkyl esters of long chain fatty acids. Transesterification process is used to convert the base oil to the desired esters and remove free fatty acids.

Unlike straight vegetable oil, bio-diesel has combustion properties very similar to those of petroleum diesel, and can replace it in most current uses. However, it is often used as an additive to petroleum diesel, improving the otherwise low lubricity of pure ultra low sulfur petroleum-diesel fuel.

The use of bio-diesel as a viable alternative energy source has increased dramatically in recent time in Europe and United States. A growing number of fuel stations are now making bio-diesel available to consumers, and a growing number of large transport fleets use some proportion of bio-diesel in their fuel.

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