Low Cost Biofuels

If until now, environmentally friendly fuels, which are carbon neutral — because their CO2 emissions during combustion are replaced by CO2 absorbed by plant production, tend to be more expensive than fossil fuels, it could be because we are looking in the wrong place.

So far, we are looking for biofuels by planting energy trees such as jatropha, kemiri sunan etc. which is then processed into fruit seeds into oil for fuels. If the oil is asked to compete with fossil oil, how much will the farmers be paid? The same thing that makes fuel from microalgae has not attracted farmers to grow it.

So the searching strategy for clean fuels that we adopt at Nu Oil has a different concept. We invite the public to plant high value plants, because the seeds will be processed into VTO (Virgin Tamanu Oil), which is an active raw material for the cosmetics, care, pharmaceutical, perfumery and other industrial raw materials. Because of the high selling value, the farmers involved can also get a appropriate income.

As for the waste from the VTO extraction process that becomes tamanu oil cake (TOC) like the burger meat in the photo below! it is the dregs that will still deliver at least the next three products.

The first is crude tamanu oil (CTO) which is cheap because from waste, when it is further processed into fuels in the form of diesel, gasoline or LPG using an FCC (Fluid Catalytic Cracking) reactor — it will become cheap fuels because the raw materials are already cheap.

From here, there are still two other derivative products, namely carbohydrates that can be processed into ethanol or animal feed, and then protein concentrates for animal feed.

Overall the biofuels produced will be competitive because the main production costs have been absorbed by the VTO, and the processing cost of the tamanu oil cake (TOC) can still be spread to other products, namely carbohydrates and protein.

Welcome to low cost biofuels!