Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KNOCK" LIST just FReepmail me........
This is a fairly HIGH VOLUME ping list on some days......
Posted on 12/05/2006 7:24:34 AM PST by Red Badger
Catfish exporter Agifish plans to turn catfish fat into biofuel to run diesel engines, with industrial-scale production set to start next year, an official of the firm said July 4.
The company said it had won government approval to build a factory in the southern Mekong delta province of An Giang and produce about 10 million liters of the fuel per year. "We have received the green light from the government to commercialize the fuel from 2007 and build a plant to process 10,000 tons of catfish a year. The fuel will be used for diesel engines in the domestic market."
Thien said the company had found a way to make about one liter of biofuel from one kilogram of fat and oil from the whiskered sweetwater fish and had already used the fuel to run pumps in its fish farms. "We have carried out tests since 2004 in laboratories in Ho Chi Minh City, and they have shown that the catfish biofuel is very good," said Ho Xuan Thien, chief engineer of the company's technical department.
Vietnam, which booked 8.4% economic growth last year, has major offshore oil and gas reserves but lacks refineries, making it reliant on petroleum imports and vulnerable to global oil price fluctuations.
Meanwhile, biofuel reseachers at the Center for Petrochemical Technology in the former Saigon plan to mix waste cooking oil with diesel to make a cheaper fuel, the state-run Vietnam News Agency reported July 4. In the two-year pilot project, used cooking oil will be collected from restaurants, hotels and food factories in Vietnam's largest city, also reducing the amount of pollution in streams and rivers, the report said.
Rest In Peace, old friend, your work is finished.......
If you want on or off the DIESEL "KNOCK" LIST just FReepmail me........
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Grandma tried to make me take fish oil all the time, and boy did I run!
Put a catfish in your tank?
Just as long as they leave a few for catfish sandwiches, this sounds fine.
Is Al Gore behind this ???
Let us assume they can process 100% of the Catfish to become fuel, which is not possible, the 10,000 tons of cat fish will lead only to approximately 79,000 barrel a year.
Diesels run on nouc mam sauce - you probably won't want to smell the exhaust.
It's just the parts you don't eat.......at least what Americans generally don't eat......
Pho Phu poo to diesel goo.......
"Diesels run on nouc mam sauce - you probably won't want to smell the exhaust."
Choi duc!
Right ... the good parts get cryo-frozen and shipped off to USA.
Hmmm, I wonder how much you could get from
Bio-diesel seems the most promising.
Regards, Ivan
When there were plenty of fish.
I guess Vietnam must have blocked internet access from the Chicken Littles screaming that the world is running out of fish.
However, it could be an excellent source of grease.
Regards, Ivan
They said the same thing about rear wheel drive and convertibles.
I guess the Charlies haven't seen the movie "Happy Feet" yet.
"factory in the southern Mekong delta province of An Giang and produce about 10 million liters of the fuel per year. "
Oh man. I'll be in An Giang all of February. I hope this factory doesn't stink the way the fish sauce factories do in Phan Tiet and Phu Quoc.
And I hope I'm *never* stuck near a generator burning catfish fat.
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