· World Energy Scenario
· Indian Energy
Scenario: Renewable energy – Oil
grows on Trees
· Indian biodiesel
Scenario: Who is doing What
· Energy Security: Green,
White and now… Brown revolution
·
A beginning of a new revolution (ACT article)
· Biodiesel: Wasteland
development, Environment Protection
· Biodiesel: Feed
stocks, Processing and usage in other countries
2. Biodiesel in India – Upstream end -
Agriculture
· Feedstock
consideration for India: Jatropha, Karanj, Acid Oil etc.
· Wasteland identification
· Seed selection &
multiplication
·
Agro-practices
· R&D in agriculture
sector: cloning, mutation & Tissue culture
· Area under Jatropha
cultivation
· State & Union
govt. plans for Jatropha cultivation
3. Mid-stream: Seeds to Oil
· Seed collection
· Seeds storage and handling
· Decortication
· Oil expelling
· Oil Storage and handling
· Usage of SVO: Power generation for
RVE and tribal areas
·
Usage of oilcake
4.
Downstream: Plants to wheels
·
Trans-esterification Process
· Process / Plant models
· Convertibility of
plant w.r.t. other feed stocks
· Catalysts
· Blending, storage and
handling of biodiesel
· Specifications/Standards
(need / evaluation / testing labs) for biodiesel
· Automotive usage
(Actual use, emission)
· Power generation
through biodiesel
5.
Financial and economic framework
·
Economics:
o Agriculture
o Oil expelling
o Trans-esterification
·
Tax holidays, pricing and subsidy
· Financing through
banks
· Export potential
·
Employment Potential
6. Institutional Framework and Capacity
Building
·
National Biofuel Centre
·
Trainings for farmers, Self Help Groups
·
Institutional arrangements
·
Role of Gram Panchayats
· Cooperative models
·
Need for a nodal agency
·
Capacity building (Root to canopy)
·
Linking the links
·
MoU between PCRA and NEDFi
7. Let the Genie of Carbon be in the bottle of Earth
- Biodiesel, Environment and Kyoto
Protocol
·
Energy & Environment: Global Warming and GHG Mitigation
·
Kyoto Protocol
· CDM Links: Backward and Forward
linkages
· Road Map
· A New Beginning - First CDM project
on biodiesel by PCRA
8.
Biodiesel Credit Bank – a step towards integration
·
Data Bank: Baselines
·
Biodiesel Credit Bank
9. Marketing Dynamics: Mechanism for
Sustainable Supply Chain
· Minimum Support Price
·
Infrastructure
Development
· Graded Subsidy
10. Being a world leader
· PCRA Diary
·
National
Diary
·
Nedfi
project
·
How to
be a world leader: Stop capital flight
To be added
:
1. TOI article by – ED + Manish
2. Old cutting with Ranjan
3.
Biodiesel