Biofuel way forward for PNG
It was this idea that drove a Pacific Adventists University (PAU) project to turn used cooking oil into reliable bio-fuel to use on generators and vehicles as a substitute fuel.
Speaking during a tour of the processing facility today, Higher Education Minister, Malakai Tabar said such a project will still get the government support as it creates environmentally products that is cheap to produce and reliable for customer usage.
“I see this as a major area of research and I am happy to have a strong team lead by a professor,” Tabar said
Tabar also stressed more in doing research to get vital information to enable PNG excel in the future and this project is testimony of good research assisted by the government to come up with innovative ways to produce substitute fuels.
Meantime, the project has five main objectives to achieve, first is to promote and reduce carbon dioxide emissions, produce quality bio-diesel from used cooking oil, to promote an alternative bio- diesel fuel used by diesel vehicle, register approved bio- diesel standard with NISIT and contribute to the development of bio- diesel policies.
The project takes used cooking oil from hotels in the city and processed at the campus.
Currently, they’re only using it on vehicles on campus as an experiment; future expansion of the project will depend on the fuel passing international standards first. PNG Today/PNGFM
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