IOC meets with success in co-processing non-edible vegetable oil in its refinery

IOC meets with success in co-processing non-edible vegetable oil in its refinery

The Research & Development Center of the state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has good reasons to cheer about. For the first time in India, and possibly the first in the world, Jatropha oil has been successfully used for co-processing in a petroleum refinery. Based on a press statement, 'IOC has successfully developed and commercialised a technology to co-process non-edible vegetable oil in the existing Diesel Hydrotreating (DHDT) units of a petroleum refinery to make bio-diesel'.

The company termed this as a "major technological breakthrough that can be a game changer for advancing use of bio-diesel in the country and ensuring ready acceptance of the fuel by the automobile industry," reported The Hindu.

Highlights on this achievement are as follows :

- During the development of this process technology, IOC also develped a process for de-metallisation and de-gumming of vegetable oils.?

- During the trial, the diesel cetane number improved by 2 units, sulphur content reduced and the inlet temperature of the reactor could also be reduced by 100 degrees Celsius with resultant energy savings.?
- Conventionally, bio diesel is produced by the trans-esterification process which requires separate plant to be set up. Bio diesel thus produced by the trans-esterification process has inferior properties in terms of oxidation stability, lower energy content and results in more deposits in the engine due to which it is not very well accepted by the automobile industry. However, the novel innovative co-processing technology developed by IOC overcomes these disadvantages and produces bio-diesel with higher Cetane number, good oxidation stability and lower density - based on a press release. Let's hope farmers in India do benefit out of the above for improving their earning capability.
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Source: http://www.merinews.com/article/ioc-meets-with-success-in-co-processing-non-edible-vegetable-oil-in-its-refinery/15887358.shtml

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