KUALA LUMPUR: The country’s biotechnology industry could take advantage of the global concern over food and energy security by focusing on developing new and economically viable renewable fuel from palm oil.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the industry should leverage on Malaysia’s natural strengths like focusing on the palm oil industry.

“Innovative bio-refineries is a strategic area which will be looked at,” he told reporters at the third meeting of the Biotech International Advisory Panel here yesterday.

Before I begin let us revise some common terms again.

Biomass: refers to living and recently dead biological material that can be used as fuel or for industrial production. Most commonly, biomass refers to plant matter grown to generate electricity or produce biofuel, but it also includes plant or animal matter used for production of fibers, chemicals or heat. Biomass may also include biodegradable wastes that can be burnt as fuel. It excludes organic material which has been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petroleum.

Let us begin. Credit to Choren Industries GmbH for the informations that they provide in the offical website of the company. What I like about Germans is their willingness to share knowledge and infromation that they possesed for the sake of the humanity.

Choren is the pioneer and lead market player of the state of the art Biomass to Biodiesel technology. The company had invented a technology that can convert Biomass to Biodiesel using the so call Carbo V Process.

The Carbo-V Process is a three-stage gasification process involving the following sub-processes:

• low temperature gasification,
• high temperature gasification and
• endothermic entrained bed gasification.