InfoSAWIT, JAKARTA – The methane capture technology development to be biogass becomes the solution and bless for national palm oil industries. This becomes the solution to the needs of energy and the fuel.

Biogas could be conversed to be biomethane so it could be as transportation fuel for the diesel vehicle by applying Diesel Dual Fuel (DDF). The diesel fuel could be mixed with gas and the composition of the mixture could be 70% gas and 30% diesel or it could be increased to be 80% gas and 20% diesel. “To gasoline vehicle, it could be 100% changed to gas,” Geetha said to InfoSAWIT.

If every palm oil plantation having biogas reactor and have the gas station from biomethane, it will save the transportation cost. But all fruit transportations and tractors should be modified by using DDF technology in the first place.

This is one act to be efficient in transportation costs. In addition, the transportation of fruit and bulking reach 12% of investment. If the technology is developed, it will be possible, the biogas reactor which produce the electricity will be the fuel in palm oil plantation.

“If it is integrated with biogas and biomethane, the fuel from transportation will save the production costs,” Geetha said. (T2)

Source: InfoSAWIT, InfoSAWIT, February 2015