Use cooking oil removed to produce bio-oil

Oil prices rose as high as $ 90 a barrel, making the District Police Department of Bangkok, Thailand, self-produced bio-oil from discarded cooking oil for use in fleets. They produce 150 liters of oil / day and save 110 USD / day.

The situation of rising oil prices at $ 90 a barrel has made the Thai police budget increasingly tight, and they have to find alternative sources by producing biofuels with discarded cooking oil. after using.

Thai police use bio-oil to cope with rising oil prices and contribute to reducing environmental pollution (Photo: AFP)

This amount of cooking oil is provided by Thai restaurants, hotels, fast food shops .

Lieutenant Colonel Tepvisit Potigengrid, Deputy Chief of Police of Bangrak District of Bangkok, said: 'The purpose of this project is to respond to the Thai King's call on the use of biofuels to save budget and reducing environmental pollution'.

According to Thai police, with only one domestic machine, they can produce 450 liters of bio-oil per day at a cost of 7 baht / liter (US $ 0.2 / liter), saving 23 baht / liter ( about 6.6 USD / liter).

According to Mr. Tepvisit, Bangrak police used this machine to produce 150 liters of oil per day and saved 110 USD per day. He said the project has been in place for months, and now this new biofuel accounts for 50% of the energy used for local police cars he is in charge of. He said: 'Among a total of 10 police cars at our station, 6 are running on bio-oil'.

Of the 88 police stations in the capital, Bangkok, 8 stations have used biofuels from this project. A police spokesman in Bangkok said that if all 3,500 police cars were run on biodiesel, the annual savings would amount to 200 million baht (about $ 6 million).

Mr. Tepvisit said there would be a solution to take advantage of about 4.7 million liters of oil removed annually in Bangkok to produce bio-oil.

According to Thai police estimates, by the end of this year, 80 of the 1,500 police stations nationwide will use this bio-oil for fleets.

Quang Thinh