Palm oil-based jet fuel makes late debut in Indonesia

[Indos]

Palm oil-based jet fuel makes late debut in Indonesia
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A CN 235-220 plane takes off for a fuel test in Bandung, West Java, on Sept. 9. One engine of the jet was powered by BioAvtur J2.4, an aviation fuel containing a small share of palm oil-based biofuel, while the other ran on regular fuel. (Courtesy of Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry/.)



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A consortium of Indonesian companies, regulators and one university has begun a series of tests on an aviation fuel containing a small share of biofuel derived from palm oil, responding to a government mandate on the increased domestic use of the commodity through biofuel blending.

The consortium started nine days of flight tests on Thursday for an aviation turbine fuel (avtur) dubbed Bioavtur J2.4, of which 2.4 percent is biofuel made from refined palm oil. The first test was conducted using a CN 235-220 plane that flew 10,000 feet above West Java, according to several press statements. Earlier in the week on Monday, the consortium completed a ground test with an aircraft at Husein Sastranegara Airport in Bandung, West Java.

Palm oil-based jet fuel makes late debut in Indonesia

A consortium has started nine days of flight tests for an aviation fuel called Bioavtur J2.4, of which 2.4 percent is biofuel derived from palm oil.

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[Indos]

Indonesia to stop LPG and fuel imports by 2030- official
By Reuters Staff
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JAKARTA, April 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia will stop both liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and fuel imports by 2030 and plans big changes to its energy infrastructure to meet that target, a top energy official said on Thursday.

President Joko Widodo has tasked the National Energy Council, a board made up of seven ministries and other stakeholders that plans energy policy, to devise a strategy to allow for a halt on LPG and fuel imports, said the council’s secretary general, Djoko Siswanto.


Once a former OPEC member, maturing fields and investment lags has turned Indonesia to a net importer of oil and gas. The president has for years announced steps to cut imports, in a bid to contain the country’s current account deficit.

The strategy includes building or upgrading refineries, converting refineries to biodiesel refineries, increasing domestic LPG production and building a gas pipeline with a target of 10 million gas connections, Djoko told CNBC Indonesia in a live telecast.

“The government will encourage gas infrastructure development for public transportation,” Djoko said, adding that the government was also optimising biofuel production and promoting electric vehicles.

Indonesia is aiming to increase domestic crude oil production to 1 million barrels per day by 2030 by developing new oil fields, using enhanced oil recovery methods in existing oil fields and boosting production in marginal fields, Djoko added.

Indonesia, the world’s top exporter of thermal coal, has long vowed to cut LPG imports while maximising use of domestic coal assets, and creating jobs in a downstream coal industry, Djoko said, reiterating plans to convert coal to dimethyl ether as a substitute to LPG. (Reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe; Writing by Fathin Ungku; Editing by Martin Petty)

Indonesia to stop LPG and fuel imports by 2030- official

Indonesia will stop both liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and fuel imports by 2030 and plans big changes to its energy infrastructure to meet that target, a top energy official said on Thursday.

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[Indos]

CN235 Flying Test Bed (FTB) First Fly with Bioavtur J2.4

The program is a cooperation between several state owned companies ( PT Pertamina, PT GMF AeroAsia, PTDI), university (Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and Gov Research Agency (BPPT).

PT Pertamina : An Energy company who produce the Biofuel and also contribute in funding the program
ITB : Research
BPPT: Research and funding
PT GMF AeroAsia : Testing the fuel using its engine MRO facility
PTDI: Testing the fuel using CN 235 FTB and give feedback and analyst

PT Pertamina will be the main component of the program. This is the biggest company in Indonesia which has 6 subsidiary Holding companies under its arm.

 

[Indos]

For automotive industry, PT Pertamina with the help of research by ITB and BPPT has produced B 30 (30% Palm oil concentration) and it has been implemented in whole countries for more than one and half year. The jetfuel is just an early stage here, I hope it can be improved into having at least 20 % Palm oil concentration someday.

 

[Bossman]

Bad idea, airports will smell like samosas rather jet fuel.

 

[Indos]

The biodiesel program will likely stop at 50 % Palm oil concentration due to not having enough palm oil production. This jet fuel is basically more like an initial research program that could only give meaningful result after 5 years of research.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Indonesia eyes biodiesel with 40% bio-content during 2021-2022

By Reuters Staff


JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, plans to implement a biodiesel program with 40% bio-content (B40) between 2021 and 2022, a government official said on Tuesday.

From January, Southeast Asia’s largest economy is set to bring in biodiesel with 30% bio-content through the B30 program, which sent palm prices higher on concern that it will export less palm oil - a feedstock for the fuel.

The government aims to start road tests using B40 next year, Luhut Pandjaitan, coordinating minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs, which oversees the energy ministry, told reporters.

President Joko Widodo sees the biodiesel program as a way of offsetting a current account deficit caused by large energy imports, while also supporting demand for palm oil, one of Indonesia’s main commodity exports.

Widodo has asked for further expansion of the biodiesel program and ordered studies on mixing palm-based fuel with jet fuel.

Pandjaitan, however, said the country may not have enough supply of palm oil to go beyond the 50% bio-content.

“We may stop at B50 if (palm) yield is not improved, if the replanting is stalling,” he said.

In 2017, Indonesia launched a palm replanting scheme to double the productivity from small farmers, and had planned to replace old trees on more than 2.4 million hectares (6 million acres) of palm under cultivation by 2025.

However, a government official said in September that the country can only replant 180,000 hectares of plantation area per year, due to difficulties smallholders faced in proving they were eligible for the scheme. This meant it could take at least 12 years to complete the program of replanting palm-growing areas. Since the launch in 2017, the replanting has only reached around 120,000 hectares.

Reporting by Wilda Asmarini, Additional reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe, Writing by Fransiska Nangoy,

Indonesia eyes biodiesel with 40% bio-content during 2021-2022

Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, plans to implement a biodiesel program with 40% bio-content (B40) between 2021 and 2022, a government official said on Tuesday.

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[Patriot forever]

The biodiesel program will likely stop at 50 % Palm oil concentration due to not having enough palm oil production. This jet fuel is basically more like an initial research program that could only give meaningful result after 5 years of research.

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DECEMBER 9, 2019

Indonesia eyes biodiesel with 40% bio-content during 2021-2022

By Reuters Staff


JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, plans to implement a biodiesel program with 40% bio-content (B40) between 2021 and 2022, a government official said on Tuesday.

From January, Southeast Asia’s largest economy is set to bring in biodiesel with 30% bio-content through the B30 program, which sent palm prices higher on concern that it will export less palm oil - a feedstock for the fuel.

The government aims to start road tests using B40 next year, Luhut Pandjaitan, coordinating minister for Maritime and Investment Affairs, which oversees the energy ministry, told reporters.

President Joko Widodo sees the biodiesel program as a way of offsetting a current account deficit caused by large energy imports, while also supporting demand for palm oil, one of Indonesia’s main commodity exports.

Widodo has asked for further expansion of the biodiesel program and ordered studies on mixing palm-based fuel with jet fuel.

Pandjaitan, however, said the country may not have enough supply of palm oil to go beyond the 50% bio-content.

“We may stop at B50 if (palm) yield is not improved, if the replanting is stalling,” he said.

In 2017, Indonesia launched a palm replanting scheme to double the productivity from small farmers, and had planned to replace old trees on more than 2.4 million hectares (6 million acres) of palm under cultivation by 2025.

However, a government official said in September that the country can only replant 180,000 hectares of plantation area per year, due to difficulties smallholders faced in proving they were eligible for the scheme. This meant it could take at least 12 years to complete the program of replanting palm-growing areas. Since the launch in 2017, the replanting has only reached around 120,000 hectares.

Reporting by Wilda Asmarini, Additional reporting by Bernadette Christina Munthe, Writing by Fransiska Nangoy,

Indonesia eyes biodiesel with 40% bio-content during 2021-2022

Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, plans to implement a biodiesel program with 40% bio-content (B40) between 2021 and 2022, a government official said on Tuesday.

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Bro we people here import palm oil to make ghee which our middle and lower middle class use to make food and the prices are soaring here because of increase in international market prices.

Soyabean oil is an another along with ethanol and other bio fuels push.

 

[Indos]

Bro we people here import palm oil to make ghee which our middle and lower middle class use to make food and the prices are soaring here because of increase in international market prices. View attachment 777767

Soyabean oil is an another along with ethanol and other bio fuels push.

The price hike is due to several factors :

1. Hike of Oil and Gas price
2. World economy is going up against after almost all nations implement lack down in 2020
3. Pandemic causes Malaysia tighten foreign arrivals and it makes Palm plantation in Malaysia experiences shortage of labor since that country relies many kind of blue color job to foreign workers


The reason we make biofuel is also to make the palm oil industry profitable so world consumers will not get supply disruption because constant supply is likely to happen when the industry in good condition. Last year the palm oil price is crash and luckily we have this Biodiesel 30 % program that absorb many of our local palm oil production. Other reason is because European countries has set plan to ban palm oil as ingredient for their biofuel industry in 2030, so we have to prepare to absorb our surplus of production when the ban is implemented.

We understand the international price is very high at this year, this is also why we dont implement B 40 program, but keep continuing B 30 program. Biofuel for jet fuel is still in very early development, it only uses around 3 percent of palm oil, the consumption will be much less compared to automotive and industry sector.

 

[Indos]

Erick Thohir is confident that fuel imports will be stagnant, this is the reason
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Wednesday, September 15 2021 - 17:11 WIB
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It is believed that imports of oil and fuel in the future will stagnate. Photo/Illustration

JAKARTA - The government believes that imports of oil and fuel oil ( BBM ) will stagnate in the future. This is based on a number of efforts being made by the government in order to build national energy security.

SOE Minister Erick Thohir after the inauguration of six subholdings owned by PT Pertamina (Persero) emphasized that shareholders will make the six entities in the energy sector a force for national energy security. That way, imports will continue to be suppressed by the government.

Also Read: Jokowi Groundbreaking Electric Vehicle Battery Factory Worth IDR 15.6 Trillion

"Well, if we see now that oil imports will shift, later when there is such a thing as an electric car, an electric battery, this will definitely change," said Erick in an interview session with IDX Channel, Wednesday (15/9/2021).

In addition to boosting the operational performance of Pertamina's six subholdings as a force for energy security, explained Erick, shareholders also assess that the development of the battery industry and electric vehicles in the future will reduce fuel imports.

Erick said that President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) had groundbreaking an electric vehicle battery factory in the Karawang area, West Java (West Java) with an investment value of USD1.1 billion. According to him, the existence of the industry will change the trend of energy use in the country.

Erick also ensured that SOEs in the energy sector will take a big role in balancing the national energy ecosystem and improving the energy supply chain to realize the mission of national energy independence.

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Didasari sejumlah upaya yang tengah dilakukan pemerintah dalam rangka membangun ketahanan energi nasional, impor minyak serta BBM diyakini akan bisa ditekan. Pemerintah...

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Indonesia successfully tests bioavtur-powered flights
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The success will be a milestone in the effort to increase bioavtur contribution in air transportation

Jakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia has successfully conducted test flights on the Bandung-Jakarta route using bioavtur, a jet fuel derived partially from palm oil, Energy and Mineral Resource Minister Arifin Tasrif said in a statement released here on Wednesday.

Indonesia has made history with the test flights, which were conducted from Bandung in West Java to Jakarta on bioavtur-powered CN-235-220 Flying Test Bed (FTB) aircraft, the minister remarked.

"The success will be a milestone in the effort to increase bioavtur contribution in air transportation, to improve national energy resilience and security," he said.

The Energy and Mineral Resource Minister's Regulation No.12/2015 stipulated the mandatory use of 3-percent biofuel in bioavtur in 2020.

The proportion will be increased to 5 percent by 2025, the minister noted.

However, bioavtur mixing is yet to run optimally due to several problems regarding bioavtur availability, technology, and economic value, Tasrif explained.

"Until today, we have passed a long road involving various parties," the minister said.

The co-processing of bioavtur has begun at the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) using refined bleached deodorized palm kernel oil (RBDPKO) as raw material and the Red and White catalyst, he informed.

Related news: Pertamina develops palm oil-based jet fuel to curb carbon emissions

An industrial-scale co-processing test was conducted at the Refinery Unit IV Cilacap, owned by state-run oil firm PT Pertamina (Persero), to produce J2.0 in 2020 and J2.4 in early 2021, he said.

A series of tests conducted in September this year showed that J2.4 meets the specifications for avtur, which means that the product can be used as an alternative to pure avtur, he added.

Meanwhile, a series of flight tests were conducted from September 8 to October 6, 2021 to test the biofuel, Tasrif informed.

"Further research and development are still conducted to produce J100; hence, bioavtur can be used by all Indonesian as well as foreign airlines," he claimed.

J2.4 bioavtur contains 2.4 percent refined bleached deodorized palm kernel oil and is produced using a catalyst, he informed.

In 2020, Pertamina's refinery in Dumai, Riau produced 100-percent biohydrocarbon diesel from refined bleached deodorized palm oil (RBDPO), he noted.

RBDPO is a palm oil product that has been refined to eliminate free fatty acid and purified to remove its color and odor.

This early production would become a key point in the development of green products, including biodiesel and bioavtur, the minister said.

Related news: PTDI delivers CN235-220 military transport aircraft to Nepal


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[Falconless]

RIP rainforests

 

[Song Hong]

I start to think biodiesel make sense as the anti development NGO and western nation push carbon tax down people's throat. This is a carbon neutral fuel and could possibly save Indonesia n x tenth billions of buying carbon credit.

 

[Indos]

RIP rainforests

Sun flower industry in Europe, this plantation produce small oxygen, absorb less carbon dioxide during men activities in the morning and afternoon compared to Palm oil which is also producing more oil. The harvasting procedure will make the land dull

Sunflower harvasting (Europe)

Palm Oil plantation in Indonesia

During the harvasting, we only needs to get the fruits while the threes are still there

 

[Falconless]

Sun flower industry in Europe, this plantation produce small oxygen, absorb less carbon dioxide during men activities in the morning and afternoon compared to Palm oil which is also producing more oil. The harvasting procedure will make the land dull

Sunflower harvasting (Europe)

Palm Oil plantation in Indonesia

During the harvasting, we only needs to get the fruits while the threes are still there

Yeah but you are burning rainforests to replace them with oil palm plantations, a plant not native to that region which is destroying habitats for animals like the orangutans.

 

[Indos]

Yeah but you are burning rainforests to replace them with oil palm plantations, a plant not native to that region which is destroying habitats for animals like the orangutans.

LOL, burning rainforest will face jail and huge penalty, no burning what so ever for the last few years and you can see no complaint from Singapore, unlike what happens in the old days.