Fish on the Finnish fuel menu
Espoo, Finland-based VTT Technical Research Center, the largest applied research organisation in Northern Europe, has launched a three-year project to produce biodiesel from waste generated by a Vietnamese fish processing plant.
VTT is working with organisations in France, Germany, the UK and Vietnam on the project known as ENERFISH to construct a biodiesel facility next to the Hiep Thanh Seafood JSC processing plant in southern Vietnam, which produces 120,000 kg of processed fish waste a day.
The fish waste is currently sold to the feed industry.
The ENERFISH project has a total budget of €5 million, more than half of which comes from EU funding. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland has provided another 10% of the budget to construct the demonstration equipment for small-scale testing. The biodiesel project is expected to be completed in 2011.
Other southern Vietnamese companies in the Mekong Delta region such as Minh Tu and Agifish have been producing biodiesel intermittently since 2006 from catfish fat.
Agifish, Vietnam's second-largest exporter of catfish, has estimated that a kilogram of catfish fat could produce over a litre (0.26 gallons) of biodiesel. The fat has been too expensive to use for biodiesel production at times because other local companies buy it for export.
The Mekong Delta market is estimated to consume 5 million litres of diesel a day.
VTT is working with organisations in France, Germany, the UK and Vietnam on the project known as ENERFISH to construct a biodiesel facility next to the Hiep Thanh Seafood JSC processing plant in southern Vietnam, which produces 120,000 kg of processed fish waste a day.
The fish waste is currently sold to the feed industry.
The ENERFISH project has a total budget of €5 million, more than half of which comes from EU funding. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland has provided another 10% of the budget to construct the demonstration equipment for small-scale testing. The biodiesel project is expected to be completed in 2011.
Other southern Vietnamese companies in the Mekong Delta region such as Minh Tu and Agifish have been producing biodiesel intermittently since 2006 from catfish fat.
Agifish, Vietnam's second-largest exporter of catfish, has estimated that a kilogram of catfish fat could produce over a litre (0.26 gallons) of biodiesel. The fat has been too expensive to use for biodiesel production at times because other local companies buy it for export.
The Mekong Delta market is estimated to consume 5 million litres of diesel a day.
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