Bio-diesel project enters phase-II

By Our Corporate Bureau | 08 May 2004

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New Delhi: The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is looking to tie-up with a number of players for the second phase. It is in talks with companies such as Tata Motors and Indian Oil to take its project to the next stage.

"We are talking to Tata Motors for testing its vehicles on bio-diesel developed from the Jatropha plant. Besides, we are in touch with Indian Oil for studying our new alternative to diesel,'' said CSIR director general, R. A. Mashelkar, at a press conference.

Two Mercedes Benz cars, which were successfully test driven on bio-diesel for more than 5,000 km, were on display yesterday.

CSIR along with the University of Hohenheim (Germany) and Daimler Chrysler, had initiated a study on the sustainability of bio-diesel, derived from Jatropha oil, as an automotive fuel.

"We have developed a Euro-III compliant bio-diesel from Jatropha. We have made only very minute changes in the car to use this fuel,'' said Daimler Chrysler director (corporate affairs and finance) Suhas Kadlaskar.

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