Cooking oil is often thrown after frying in the house or restaurant. A refinery of the government company Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has now got a certification to create a sustainable aviation fuel with the same oil. SAF is an optional fuel made of non-petrolium feedstock that reduces pollution from air transport. Depending on availability, it can be added up to 50 per cent in traditional aviation turbine fuel (ATF or jet fuel). India has made one per cent SAF mixture compulsory in Jet Fuel sold to International Airline companies since 2027.
Certification received from here
Company Chairman Arvinder Singh Sahni said that the IOC’s refinery at Panipat, Haryana, IOC’s Refinery to make SAF with used ISCC CORSI CBI Certification (International Stability and Carbon Certification – ISCC – ISCC – was developed under the scheme of reducing carbon for international aviation (Corsia). Is. He said that Indian oil is the first company in the country to achieve this certification. Sahni said that from the end of the current calendar year, this refinery will start production of about 35,000 tonnes of SAF annually. He said that this production will be sufficient to meet the requirement of a compulsory one percent mixture for the country in 2027.
This will be production
Explaining this process, he said that agencies will collect cooking oil used from big users like hotel chain, restaurant and snacks and sweets like Haldiram and supply it to Panipat refinery. This oil will be used to produce SAF in Panipat Refinery. Large hotels and restaurant chains usually throw cooking oil after using once. Currently, it is collected and exported by the used cooking oil agencies. Sahni said that such oil is available in large quantities in the country. The only challenge is to collect it. However, it is easy to collect it with a large hotel chain, but small users including homes need to find solutions to gather it.
Butile acrylet plant set up in Gujarat
Along with this, the company has also set up a Rs 5,000 crore plant to produce beutile acrylet (BA) at its Koyali Refinery in Gujarat, which is used to make paint. This beauty acrylet plant with one and a half million annual capacity will help abolish the 3,20,000 tonnes of annual paint feedstock to be imported in the country. It is the second largest such plant in India after the unit of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) in the Kochi Refinery.
Work on renewable energy sources
The Indian Oil Corporation of the public sector has been at the forefront of innovation, especially in areas of green energy, sustainable solutions and technological progresses. The company is working on renewable energy sources such as 2G ethanol, fuel cell, bio-diesel and energy storage sources. He said that the paint industry is growing at the rate of 13-14 percent annually. This industry imports a large part of its use raw materials. In July, we started the BA unit in the Koyali Refinery, which will eliminate the need for import and save foreign currency for the country. Sahni said that with the Kochi plant, this new unit can become an option for 80-90 percent import.
Tender for green hydrogen
Regarding Green Hydrogen, Sahni said that the company has given L&T a tender for the country’s largest green hydrogen plant. He said that a green hydrogen unit with a capacity of 10,000 tonnes of annual capacity in Panipat Refinery will be ready in 27 months. Green hydrogen produced by dividing water using renewable energy is a clean energy source that only emits water vapor and leaves no residues in the air like coal and oil. It can be used as fuel in industries and vehicles.
India has a relatively inexpensive renewable energy (power produced from sunlight and wind energy), which has helped to keep the green hydrogen production costs below US $ four kg. He further said that Indian Oil will use this fuel in its Panipat refinery. Currently, refineries use gray hydrogen (hydrogen produced from fossil fuel) for the production of fuses such as petrol and jet fuz in hydrockrocking units.