Clean fuel from basa fish fat

An Giang Fisheries Import Export Joint Stock Company (AGIFISH CO) has successfully produced and marketed Basa Bio oil made from basa fish fat.

Basa fish has a lot of fat (Photo: VNN)

According to Mr. Ho Xuan Thien - Director of Bio-BASA Company has the ability to replace DO for all engines. Users can mix this oil with DO oil at all ratios, which can be transferred from Basa Bio to DO in the absence of additional fuel.

This is a clean type of fuel because of the test, compared with DO, the CO2, CO, smoke, etc. rates are 45-78.75% lower. Especially, Basa Bio has no sulfur and has the same taste as cooking oil.

1 kg of fish fat can produce 1.13 liters of Basa Bio. Current price of Basa Bio is 7,000 VND / liter. AGIFISH CO is preparing to build a factory with a capacity of 10,000 tons per year and is expected to be mass produced in early 2007.

It is known that many countries in the world have successfully produced clean fuels derived from vegetable oils but from animal fat like basa fish (a very plentiful source of raw materials), Vietnam was the first country to succeed.

Huy Thinh