Right now is Tuesday, April 9, 2024.
A couple of days in the past, Bolivia inaugurated its first biodiesel plant, close to the Guillermo Elder Bell Refinery, in Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
Designed to provide 1,500 barrels per day – round 86 million liters per 12 months – it is going to exchange as much as 48% of the nation’s diesel imports.
Biodiesel is a extra sustainable, high-quality gasoline with decrease CO2 emissions. In Bolivia will probably be accomplished via the transesterification of vegetable oils. The uncooked materials for Plant I comes from plantations of oil species, akin to soybeans, macororó, jatropha, totaí, cusi, amongst others, that are produced within the area. Different new agricultural frontiers are additionally being thought of and new jobs will probably be created within the Bolivian agro-industrial sector.
With investments of round US$54.8 million, this primary plant was constructed by the state oil firm Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Bolivianos (YPFB). There are different industrial crops below development:
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the Biodiesel II Plant in El Alto, anticipated so as to add 9,000 barrels per day,
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the so-called HVO Plant – Renewable Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil – which is able to convert cooking oil into renewable diesel, and
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the Pirólisis Plant for treating plastic waste.
Clique here for the press launch of the Bolivian Ministry of Hidrocarbons and Power. AND here for the YPFB assertion on the inauguration of the Biodiesel Plant I.
Ministry of Hydrocarbons and Power Portal. Press launch Biodiesel Plant 1. 2024.
Nonetheless on the Biodiesel I Plant, by clicking on the picture under you will see that a 3-minute video on YouTube (in Spanish) of Noticias Positivas de Bolivia.
In early 2024, YPFB released that the manufacturing facility’s most essential tools was imported from Italy, Belgium, Brazil, India, Paraguay, Peru, China, Argentina, Turkey, the USA, Japan, the UK, India, Spain and Sweden. In different phrases, a very international mission.
Bolivia has simply over 12 million inhabitants. With an space of 1,098,581 km2 (424,164 sq mi) Bolivia is the fifth largest nation in South America, after Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Colombia, and, alongside Paraguay, is without doubt one of the two landlocked nations within the Americas (supply: Wikipedia) .
