Processing Course

Technical Course on: Pure Plant Oil production (PPO) & Diesel engine modification

A one week training course on technologies for Jatropha oil processing and applications was developed and held for the first time in 2010 from 18 to 23 October.

At the bottom of this page are background documents

Objectives

The objectives are:

to increase capacity of persons working in Jatropha projects with small farmers in SADC countries. Participants will profit from the experiences of the FACT-ADPP pilot project.
To increase the capacity of technicians to press and purify jatropha oil and to modify diesel engines, both stationair engines and car engines.

Course Content

Fundamentals of using pure plant oils (PPO) in diesel engines
Modification of automobile diesel engines (NISSAN) to run on PPO
Modification of stationery diesel engines to run on PPO
Production of fuel grade PPO from jatropha oil
Pressing, Filtration, Neutralization

Two external experts, Niels Ansoe from Dajolka Denmark and Krishna Raghavan from ARRAKIS will train the participants.

Target group

Operators in vegetable oil workshops, Car mechanics, engineers, Practitioners, within the SADC region. , with a minimum of basic mechanical background

Materials

All participants will receive: Jatropha Handbook Section 5.2.2 on Modification of Diesel engines (in Portuguese)

By: Jan de Jongh (FACT/ARRAKIS)

File type icon	File name	Description	Size	Revision	Time	User
ć	View Download	Presentation: Raghavan (2010): Setting up Jatropha Technical Training Center	1057k	v. 1	9 Nov 2010, 23:55	Banana hill Consultants
ĉ	View Download	FACT (2010): Aplicação dos produtos Jatropha "from: Jatropha Handbook, Chapter 5 (portuguese)"	189k	v. 4	15 Feb 2011, 07:11	Banana hill Consultants
Ċ	View Download	Jan de Jongh (2009): Capacity Building & Development of “Training Centers for Rural Technologies”, In Bilibiza and in Chimoio, within the FACT pilot project in Mozambique	178k	v. 1	16 Feb 2011, 04:20	Banana hill Consultants

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