Six new biofuel investment proposals approved in India
Type of post: NEWS.
The Government of Uttar Pradesh, a state in Northern
India, has cleared six biofuel investment proposals worth almost 17 billion INR
(approximately, 200 M€). According to the Business Standard, a high-level
committee headed by the state chief secretary has recently approved the six
biofuel projects (see Yogi
govt clears six biofuel investment proposals worth Rs 17 billion, 4/10/2018).
A summary of the available data is shown in the tables below.
One of the plants
will be developed by Sunlight Fuels Private Limited (Sunlight Fuels).
Sunlight Fuels,
headquartered in New Delhi, entered into a license agreement for IH2
technology with a Singapore-based affiliate of CRI Catalyst Company LP (CRI)
in 2016.
Press release: IH2
Technology Licensed to India-based SunLight Fuels Private Limited,
24/5/2016.
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Location
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Site of 90 acres in Sitapur.
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Feedstock
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500 tons/day of bagasse.
The company has an agreement with the local Birla
Group for the supply of feedstock from its sugar mill in Hargaon (Sitapur).
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Products
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150 tons/day of drop-in hydrocarbon
transportation fuels.
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Technology
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IH2
technology is a continuous catalytic thermo-chemical process which produces
transportation fuels from agricultural, forest and sorted municipal residues.
The process was
developed by Gas Technology Institute (GTI) of Des Plaines (IL, USA) in 2009.
GTI and CRI have jointly continued development of the technology since 2010.
The biofuel plant
will be set under technical collaboration with KBR (the Netherlands).
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Cost
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15.5 billion INR (approximately, 182 M€).
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The rest of the projects
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Locations
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Sitapur,
Hapur, Meerut, Bareilly and Muzaffarnagar.
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Feedstock
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Farm
waste, press mud (sugarcane byproduct) and other agro wastes.
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Products
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Biofuel,
bioCNG and biofertiliser.
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Cost
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200
million INR (approximately, 2.5 M€).
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Figure 1. IH2
demonstration facility located at Shell Technology Center Bangalore (STCB) in India
(extracted from CRI website). One of the new plants will be based on IH2
technology.