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WASTE SOLUTIONS

deliveries of biodiesel to a carbon dioxide. to reduce oil imports.
variety of blending locations In August last year, SpiceJet • Use of surplus food grains
in an aggregate amount of created history by becoming the for production of ethanol for
more than $23 million during first Indian airline to operate blending with petrol with the
2019. Biodiesel shipments are a flight powered by biofuel. approval of National Biofuel
scheduled to begin this month. The 45-minute flight of the Coordination Committee.

Indian researchers have 75-seater aircraft took off from • Viability gap funding
produced biodiesel from a Dehradun’s Jolly Grant airport
microalgae species, using and successfully landed in Delhi scheme for second-
dairy wastewater as natural with 25 people on board. One generation ethanol bio-
feedstock for the algae. The of the two engines of the plane refineries of Rs5000 crore
physicochemical properties of was running on a blend of 25% in six years in addition to
the biodiesel produced were bio-jet fuel and 75% aviation additional tax incentives
analysed and compared with turbine fuel. The mixture helped and higher purchase price as
the petro-diesel. The results reduced carbon emissions by compared to first-generation
demonstrated that the engine 15%. biofuels.
performance parameters and
emission parameters of the Government initiatives What is needed
biodiesel were better than the to propagate biofuel In the initial years of the
conventional petro-diesel with a Last year, the Central business, industrial undertakings
significant reduction in the Government announced its incur significant expenditure
emission of intention of rolling out 5,000 for setting up waste-to-biofuel
compressed biofuel plants plants in terms of machinery
in a phased manner, with and technology, as well as in
250 plants by 2020, 1,000 training manpower and research.
plants by 2022 and 5,000 Such costs can dissuade those
plants by 2025, with interested in investing in this
a total investment of revolutionary industry. The
around `1.7 trillion. first few years may also not be
To achieve this, it has profitable in the nascent period.
formulated a National To nix these worries, the
Biofuels Policy, wh ich government should exempt
includes several decisions goods imported for the setting
that encourage investment in up of such plants from paying
the biofuel industry: taxes. Undertakings producing
• Increasing the blending of biofuels should be granted 100%
biodiesel to up to 5% of the deduction from profits for ten
diesel market, which is equal consecutive years starting from
to more than 1.2 billion the year in which the business
gallons per year. is commenced. Such incentives
will help increase the feasibility
• Allowing blending of and financial viability of such
ethanol produced from projects.
damaged food grains, rotten
According to government
potatoes, corn, cassava, estimates, annually, 62MMT
sugarcane, sugar beet of Municipal Solid Waste is
and sweet sorghum, generated in India. There is
with petrol, in a move technology available which can

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