I Love My India. Tiranga, the national-flag of India means the flag with three colours. But, it has in fact four colours. The fourth colour blue often remains unmentioned by the people. The 'Chakra' on the middle band of the flag in blue with its 24 spokes denotes continual progress of the country. The blue signifies the limit of progress, which is deemed as boundless as the blue sky above and as fathomless as the deep blue of the high seas. The Tiranga was hoisted for the first time on the ramparts of the Red Fort on August 16, 1947 and not on August 15, 1947 as is commonly believed. The Tiranga has the rare honour of being hoisted on the highest peak of the world, the Mount Everest eleven times till date. No other national flag has this honour. The common practice is to fly only one national flag on any building. There is, however, one building in the country where four national flags are flown at a time every day. This privileged building is the parliament of India. It is so, because of its huge circular structure with no central dome. Therefore, four flags one in each direction East, West, North and South are flown. The tallest flag-mast in the country is about 138 feet at fort Saint George, Madras (Chennai) on which the Tiranga proudly flies.
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BioDiesel as BioFuel

My mission is to assist people who want to set up BioDiesel Plants. Most of them try the Process of BioDiesel at Home or in Laboratory. When they want to set up a full scale plant, there are not many plant suppliers. Any fabricator can set up a BioDiesel Plant for them if he is given a Detailed Engineering Package.
I sell designs and drawings to fabricate your own plants in your own town. It contains data sheets for all bought out items. Based on that any local fabricator can easily fabricate it. Since most of people who buy these have done number of trials and based on their experiance, they do commissioning themselves.
I have prepared a Detailed Engineering Packages for BioDiesel plants, based on Batch process. It comprises of Catalyst Reactor, Biodiesel reactor, Settling and washing tanks. It includes special pretreatment vessel. These are of following capacities :

  •      400 liters per day (Batch)
  •   1,000 liters per day (Batch)
  •   2,000 liters per day (Batch)
  •   5,000 liters per day (Batch)
  • 10,000 liters per day (Batch)
  • I have prepared a Detailed Engineering Packages for 10,000, 30,000, 50,000 and 100,000 liters per day (Continuous) BioDiesel Plants. These are designed as Automatic Continuous BioDiesel Plants, based on Ultrasonic mixer and Centrifuge (or Settling Tanks).
    Process & Instrumentation Diagram Process Flow Diagram Flow rates in pipe lines
    Plot Plan Equipment List Equipment Drawings
    Pump List Pump Data Sheets Piping Specifications
    Line List Valve List Valve Data Sheets
    Instruments List with Ranges Ultrasonic Catalog Centrifuge Catalog (or Settling Tanks)
    Piping Isometrics Piping Bill of Quantity Process Manual

    for Information about drawings of Plants. You can even buy Project Reports of these plants, in Word and Excel format with full financial analysis for US$ 10 or 500.
    To set up a biodiesel plant, you should have your own Jatropha plantation. Oil is currently not easily available. To set up 1,000 liters per day plant, you need a plantation in 200 hectares. Once you have a source of oil, you can set up a BioDiesel plant. Such a large patch of land is not available in India as one piece. Hence the plants have to collect seeds from a number of farmers. Most of the Jatropha oil currently produced in India is used as BioKerosene (substitute for Kerosine for use in Lamps and stoves) and for manufacture of Soap. Not much oil is available for manufacture of BioDiesel or for exports. There are 5 large plants, set up with a capacity of 300,000 liters per day, 4 medium size plants, with a capacity of 30,000 liters per day, and a number of small plants, with a capacity of 1,000 to 3,000 liters per day. Practically all plants are running at very low capacities, or closed due to lack of Jatropha oil. Logistics of seed collection is challenging. You get seeds only once a year. These will have to be stored for operation through out the year. This requires huge working capital which is beyond capacity of small plants. In India oil is also used for Lighting and that is more pressing use for rural Indians. Even though Jatropha plantations are being set up on small land holding is going on in India, practically no oil will be available for BioDiesel manufacture.
    You can also see a detailed presentation about Jatropha Plantation at .
    Currently marketing of BioDiesel is only business that you can start. To get agency from already existing units, please to see the list of manufacturers.

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