Since in the beginning of the project not much was known about the equipment and layout of oil pressing and purifying workshops, Jan de Jongh visited Diligent Tanzania, which at that time was already producing PPO from Jatropha. This workshop formed the basis for equipping the BBC workshop. Later on Diligent expended and bougth larger more industrial type of presses.

One same press was bought from Tanzania, the Sayari press and the first technical operator from BBC was trained at Dilgent for 2 weeks. For an overvieuw of most of the equipment see annex.

For the latest overview of the equipment in the workshop see PP presentation of Krishna Raghavan, who gave Technical Assistance for two months Oct-Nov 2010 at BBC.

By: Jan de Jongh (FACT/ARRAKIS)