DEC, JFI partner on jatropha-based aviation biofuels in Indonesia

January 26, 2011 |

In Indonesia, Arizona’s  Diversified Energy Corporation has been selected by PT Jatropha Feedstock Initiative (JFI) of Indonesia to provide technology and production equipment for a large scale jatropha plantation and advanced biofuels production business being developed in eastern Indonesia.

Diversified Energy will provide advanced bio-refinery technologies and processing equipment that will convert the crude jatropha oil into fungible “drop-in- replacement” bio-jet fuel, and will actively participate in the efforts to test and certify jatropha oil-derived bio-jet fuels for commercial and military jet aircraft engines use worldwide.

Diversified will also provide state-of-the-art biomass gasification and energy conversion technologies that will convert all of the plantations‟ biomass waste into electricity and additional chemical byproducts. In total the deal will represent more than $1.5 billion in green energy technology exports over the next 15 years, including the sale of farm equipment, organic fertilizer production equipment, water well drilling equipment, construction equipment, advanced bio-refinery plant equipment, and biomass-to-energy plant conversion equipment.

Headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, PT JFI is a foreign/Indonesian joint venture whose partners have been involved in the commercial development of jatropha plantations in Indonesia since 2006. They have cooperated with the Indonesian Ministry of Agriculture in its efforts to develop high yielding jatropha hybrids specifically developed for Indonesian climate conditions. PT JFI has developed large scale commercial jatropha nurseries in eastern Indonesia since 2008 and has developed a unique mechanical transplanting system for jatropha seedlings.

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Category: Fuels

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