Retrofitting Services

The biodiesel industry in India is undergoing a pivotal transformation driven by the quality standards mandated by national oil marketing companies (OMCs) like IOCL, HPCL, and BPCL. For years, biodiesel manufacturers operated with limited oversight on quality control and conformance. However, the new tendering protocols by OMCs require Biodiesel to strictly adhere to Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) specifications. This has significant implications for producers. Hence, lots of industries will have to upgrade their biodiesel plants to meet the quality control. This is precisely where our quality retrofitting of biodiesel production plants comes into the scene.

Firstly, the bar for quality has been raised substantially with around 15 critical parameters, including cetane number, sulfur content, acid value, moisture content, distillation temperature, copper strip corrosion, and more needing to be met as per IS 15607. Plants that had negligible quality monitoring now find their Biodiesel unable to achieve these benchmarks.

Secondly, selling Biodiesel to private industries or for captive use provided flexibility on quality norms. But to participate in OMC tenders, meeting BIS specs becomes an unavoidable prerequisite. This restricts revenue opportunities for substandard quality biodiesel.

Thirdly, with feedstock prices volatile and fossil diesel rates controlled by the government, the value proposition for Biodiesel is linked to OMC tenders where better price realizations are possible. Open market sales are becoming unviable.

Therefore, biodiesel producers have to urgently upgrade quality control to deliver BIS-grade Biodiesel. To this end, they might need the guidance of quality biodiesel plant consultants in India. This requires a multi-pronged approach:

• Feedstock Quality – Invest in technologies for detailed characterization and pretreatment of feedstock to remove contaminants and enhance consistency.
• Process Optimization – Leverage software modeling and simulation tools to identify process bottlenecks impacting quality factors. Optimize parameters like residence time, mixing intensity, separation efficiency, etc., to meet the specifications.
• Automated Testing – Implement automated, real-time analytics like chromatography, mass spectrometry, robotized titrators, etc., for quality monitoring across the production workflow.
• Personnel Training – Educate staff on biodiesel standards, plant operation best practices, quality assurance principles, and analytical testing for consistent output.
• Certification – Seek a BIS license through a third-party inspection agency to assure customers of quality compliance.

Our team offers end-to-end retrofitting of biodiesel production plants tailored to your plant requirements, including feedstock characterization, process audits, automation integration, testing labs, and BIS certification assistance. With marginal expenditure using our offerings, your plant can be transformed into a high-precision facility generating BIS-grade biodiesel reliably for tapping into OMC tenders. Contact us to learn how we can rapidly upgrade quality and open new revenue streams as biofuel plant consultants in India for your biodiesel business.