{"id":78,"date":"2011-02-16T12:39:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T12:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-07-29T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T17:08:44","slug":"castor-oil-as-source-of-biodiesel-in-jamaica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2011\/02\/castor-oil-as-source-of-biodiesel-in-jamaica\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor oil as source of biodiesel in Jamaica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement worth US$ 10.3 million has been signed between Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica\u2019s Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy (PCJ\u2019s CERE) and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) to conduct research on Castor and Jatropha for the production of Biodiesel.The proposed research project is\u00a0 for three years,\u00a0 from February 2011 to January 2014 and involves an establishment of pilot scale plant to produce biodiesel from castor raised at CARDI and subject the biodiesel for transport oriented applications.The managing director at PCJ Mr:Nigel Logan has said that the partnership would enable the nation to regulate it&#8217;s demand for oil and also to explore the native renewable sources for energy production.He further added that optimistic results would guide them to implement the Castor oil biodiesel in transport sector.It is important to remember that Jamaica has already made blends of ethanol with classical fuel which is being sold at energy service stations.<\/p>\n<p>For details, please read:http:\/\/www.jis.gov.jm\/news\/hl.s1\/26779<\/p>\n<p><em>Some interesting links<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buildingenergyanalytics.com\/blog\/?p=11\">Building Energy Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weird.gallery\/crazy-and-weird-stuff-with-solar-power\/\">Some Innovative &amp; Unique Solar Power<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An agreement worth US$ 10.3 million has been signed between Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica\u2019s Centre of Excellence for Renewable Energy (PCJ\u2019s CERE) and the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) to conduct research on Castor and Jatropha for the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2011\/02\/castor-oil-as-source-of-biodiesel-in-jamaica\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-oil-biodiesel","category-castor-oil-research","category-castor-plant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1090,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}