Dubai Group invests in southeast Asia's largest biodiesel plant

Dubai Group, a financial services company of Dubai Holding, has invested $49.5 million (€31.2 million) for approximately 30% of Malaysia's GBD Investment (GBDI), the largest biodiesel plant in southeast Asia.

The investment was made by Dubai Ventures, the equity investment company of Dubai Investment Group, a subsidiary of Dubai Group.

GBDI has completed construction and begun production of its 200,000 tonne biodiesel facility at Lahad Datu in the state of Sabah, Malaysia. The company is preparing to begin construction on its phase II facility, which will increase GBDI's biodiesel production capacity to 500,000 tonnes a year. GBD's plant has the ability to use both palm oil and jatropha as feedstock.

GBDI's facility will produce biodiesel and pharma-grade glycerine under the European (EN) and US (ASTM) standards for the Korean as well as global markets. GBD has already signed off-take agreements for all of its production.

'Biofuels and renewable energy are the preferred industry focus for Dubai Investment Group, and we intend to bring this technology to the geographic regions, especially the Middle East, where we currently have a presence,' Abdulhakeem Kamkar, CEO of Dubai Investment Group, says.

GBDI intends to use the proceeds from the recent placement for working capital in the Lahad Datu biodiesel plant and its investment into jatropha plantations in the Philippines. The plantation, which will cover up to 200,000 hectares, will have a potential annual production of 750,000 tonnes of crude jatropha oil.

Enzymes used in Biogas Plants can increase the Profitpotential

PRLog (Press Release)  – Enzymes used in Biogas Plants can increase the Profitpotential more than 35 percent

Biogas Plants is fast growing Market worldwide. High tech plants can be very profitable
through converging Nano- and Biotechnology for the gas cleaning process and use Enzymes which are the focal point of the biotechnological process to make profit.

Biogas power plants are a combination of anaerobic digestion systems with associated electricity generators such as gas turbines or gas engines. The electricity they produce is classified as renewable or green energy and if sold into the national grid attract subsidies.
In the last 20 years, biogas utilization been successful in wastewater treatment plants, industrial processing applications, landfill and the agricultural sector. The future increase use of biogas is a strong goal in most countries, not only because is it a renewable energy source but it will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution and soil degradation and last not least it will change agriculture sectors in many countries worldwide to produce partly energy.

The production of electricity is the main mode of biogas utilization in the future but the key factor for profit is the process optimization, gas cleaning and biotechnology.
There are 12 000 Plants higher than 100 KW worldwide in 2006 but 40 percent are not
profitable today, mainly because operation knowledge is poor. Up to 2030 there will be build more than 250 000 plants and the market will reach 43 billion US Dollar in 2030,
after a recent released study by helmut kaiser consultancy, http://www.hkc22.com/biogas.html
There is a substancial potenzial to increase yield and productivity of biogas production
with the optimization of the substrates and the use of enzymes which increase the
cost - benefit ratio from averige today 1 to 4 up to 1:8 and make a plant highly profitable. Offering the whole value chain is a vital factor for the companies to be competitive in the future.
Biogas is part of renewable energies (http://www.hkc22.com/renewableenergy.html ) worldwide.
The total energy mix of the future will be more regenerative and sustainable. The generation and storage of renewable energy will be the fastest growing sector in energy market for next 20 years. The market volume of renewable energy worldwide will increase from US$ 95.8 billion in 2007 to US$ 124.4 billion in 2010 and reach US$ 198.1 billion in 2015. These figures and developments are based on the whole value chain.

بیوگاز - قسمت اول

فعلا قصد ندارم به تاریخچه و ضرورت استفاده از بیوگاز بپردازم و ترجیح میدم در خصوص نکات فنی و جزئیات فن آوری بیو گاز مطالبی را بنویسم .

هممونطور که می دونید دو نوع عمده از گاز در جهان استفاده می شه:

1.       گاز مایع (ال.پی.جی) که از پالایش محصولات نفتی بدست میاد

2.       گاز طبیعی  که از منابع گاز مستقل حاصل میشه.

نوع دیگری از گاز که بعلت ارزانی و پاک بودن مورد توجه سیاست گذارا قرار گرفته بیوگاز یا گاز زیستی است.

بیوگاز از تجزیه مواد حاصل از میکروارگانیسم ها در غیاب اکسیژن حاصل میشه که بعلت قابلیت اشتعال خوبش از اون بعنوان سوخت زیستی یا Bio Fuel  استفاده می کنند.

این بیوگاز میتونه از تخمیر گندابها ، فاضلابها و یا توده هایی از گیاهان که امروزه به آنها گیاهان انرژی (E-Plant  یا energy crop ) می گویند فرآوری بشوند .دی اکسید کربن و متان از این طریق بدست می آیند.

همچنین بیوگاز میتونه از روشی بنام  Gasification  چوب و یا سایر مواد زیستی بدست بیاد .منو اکسید کربن ،نیتروژن ،هیدروژن و مقادیری متان از این طریق حاصل می شه.