Bio Diesel from Jetropha
The use of petroleum products is increasing at a rapid rate while its resources are getting depleted at a much more faster rate. As a solution for this the honorable president of India Mr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam suggests a new alternative. It’s by producing Bio-Diesel by JATROPHA crop.
Jatropha is a drought resistant perennial growing shrub, non demanding, tolerant to extremes, suitable to tropical and non tropical climate and considerable climatic changes, even upto light frost. It grows considerably easily and lives producing seeds for nearly 50 years.
It is known by different names: in Hindi - Ratanjyot Jangli Erandi, Malayalam - Katamanak, Tamil - Kattamanakku, Telugu - Pepalam, Kannada - Kadaharalu, Gujarati - Jepal, Sanskrit - Kanana Randa
The seeds of JATROPHA are dried and oil is extracted from it. It is then heated to a particular temperature and methanol is added to it to produce the bio diesel. Around 300–350 ml of bio diesel can be produced from 1kg of JATROPHA seed. More over glycerin, cooking gas, wax, nylon textile colors, medicine etc can be produced from JATROPHA.
What The president said in his historic speech about JATROPHA...
"We have nearly 60 million hectares of wasteland, of which 30 million hectares are available for energy plantations like "Jatropha". Once grown, the crop has a life of 50 years. Each acre will produce about 2 tonnes of bio-diesel at about Rs. 20 per litre. Biodiesel is carbon neutral and many valuable by-products flow from this agro-industry. Intensive research is needed to burn bio-fuel in internal combustion engines with high efficiency, and this needs to be a urgent R&D programme. India has a potential toproduce nearly 60 million tones of bio-fuel annually, thus making a significant and important contribution to the goal of Energy Independence. Indian Railways has already taken a significant step of running two passenger locomotives (Thanjavur to Nagore section) and six trains of diesel multiple units (Tiruchirapalli to Lalgudi, Dindigul and Karur sections) with a 5% blend of bio-fuel sourced from its in-house esterification plants. In addition, they have planted 75 lakh Jatropha saplings in Railway land which is expected to give yields from the current year onwards. This is a pioneering example for many other organisations to follow. Similarly many States in our country have energy plantations. What is needed is a full economic chain from farming, harvesting, extraction to esterification, blending and marketing. Apart from employment generation, bio-fuel has a significant potential to lead our country towards energy independence. The other critical options are development of electric vehicles; hydrogen based vehicles, electrification of Railways and urban mass transportation."
I came to know about JATROPHA from a recently held agricultural exhibition at my home town. A stall by Organic Agricultural Development Charitable Trust (OADCT) was there explaining about the benifits about this program. This trust has around 1500 acres of JATROPHA crop.
If any one want more details about the trust then be free to contact me..
Click Here To mail me!
see the following links to know more..
http://www.pcra-biofuels.org/
http://www.mgrbiodiesel.com/
http://www.bbibiofuels.com/biodieselmagazine/
http://aaqua.persistent.co.in/aaqua/forum/index
Jatropha is a drought resistant perennial growing shrub, non demanding, tolerant to extremes, suitable to tropical and non tropical climate and considerable climatic changes, even upto light frost. It grows considerably easily and lives producing seeds for nearly 50 years.
It is known by different names: in Hindi - Ratanjyot Jangli Erandi, Malayalam - Katamanak, Tamil - Kattamanakku, Telugu - Pepalam, Kannada - Kadaharalu, Gujarati - Jepal, Sanskrit - Kanana Randa
The seeds of JATROPHA are dried and oil is extracted from it. It is then heated to a particular temperature and methanol is added to it to produce the bio diesel. Around 300–350 ml of bio diesel can be produced from 1kg of JATROPHA seed. More over glycerin, cooking gas, wax, nylon textile colors, medicine etc can be produced from JATROPHA.
What The president said in his historic speech about JATROPHA...
"We have nearly 60 million hectares of wasteland, of which 30 million hectares are available for energy plantations like "Jatropha". Once grown, the crop has a life of 50 years. Each acre will produce about 2 tonnes of bio-diesel at about Rs. 20 per litre. Biodiesel is carbon neutral and many valuable by-products flow from this agro-industry. Intensive research is needed to burn bio-fuel in internal combustion engines with high efficiency, and this needs to be a urgent R&D programme. India has a potential toproduce nearly 60 million tones of bio-fuel annually, thus making a significant and important contribution to the goal of Energy Independence. Indian Railways has already taken a significant step of running two passenger locomotives (Thanjavur to Nagore section) and six trains of diesel multiple units (Tiruchirapalli to Lalgudi, Dindigul and Karur sections) with a 5% blend of bio-fuel sourced from its in-house esterification plants. In addition, they have planted 75 lakh Jatropha saplings in Railway land which is expected to give yields from the current year onwards. This is a pioneering example for many other organisations to follow. Similarly many States in our country have energy plantations. What is needed is a full economic chain from farming, harvesting, extraction to esterification, blending and marketing. Apart from employment generation, bio-fuel has a significant potential to lead our country towards energy independence. The other critical options are development of electric vehicles; hydrogen based vehicles, electrification of Railways and urban mass transportation."
I came to know about JATROPHA from a recently held agricultural exhibition at my home town. A stall by Organic Agricultural Development Charitable Trust (OADCT) was there explaining about the benifits about this program. This trust has around 1500 acres of JATROPHA crop.
If any one want more details about the trust then be free to contact me..
Click Here To mail me!
see the following links to know more..
http://www.pcra-biofuels.org/
http://www.mgrbiodiesel.com/
http://www.bbibiofuels.com/biodieselmagazine/
http://aaqua.persistent.co.in/aaqua/forum/index
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