Satish Lele satish.lele@gmail.com

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 :

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.