Kerala
A biodiesel technology -
which uses broiler chicken waste to produce biodiesel - developed at the Kerala Veterinary and
Animal Sciences University (KVASU) in Wayanad is getting ready for viable
commercial production. This was the doctoral work of John Abraham, associate
professor, Livestock Production Management (LPM), College of Veterinary and
Animal Sciences, Pookode, under the KVASU. He had pioneered the production of
biodiesel from broiler chicken waste and dead poultry. He scaled up his
innovation by establishing a pilot plant at the KVASU campus at Pookode and
demonstrated the economic production of a renewable bio-fuel from a potential hazardous
waste.
The Indian Patent Office
issued the certificate of grant for the development titled ‘Biodiesel
Production from Rendered Chicken Oil’ recently.
Along with his guide Ramesh
Saravana Kumar, professor and head of the LPM, Veterinary College and Research
Institute (VCARI) at Namakkal in Tamil Nadu, Dr. Abraham filed a patent for the
technology in 2014 on behalf of the Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences
University (TANUVAS). He has offered the patent as a tribute to his guide Dr.
Kumar who passed away recently and is planning to present a memento with the
patent certificate to the VCARI, where he had done the research, in memory of
his guide.
The bio-fuel was validated by
the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL),
Kochi refinery. Demonstrably, a farm vehicle ran on it with better engine
efficiency and significantly reduced emissions.
Dr Abraham was recently awarded NITI Aayog’s ‘Atal India Challenge’ for this innovation.
Source: The Hindu
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