World Biofuel Day 2020: History and Significance of the day

World Biofuel Day will be seen on 10th August to make awareness about the significance of non-fossil fuels (Green Fuels) as an option in contrast to conventional fossil fuels.

Bio-fuels are primarily inexperienced fuels that are setting charming fuels and their usage would deal with world contemplations about containment of carbon emissions. They’re renewable, bio-degradable, sustainable, and setting lovely gas. It might be viewed as various to standard fossil fuels. Biofuels have the advantages of diminishing import reliance on crude oil, cleaner setting, further income to farmers, and employment time in rustic territories. In India, the biofuels program can be in synergy with the Authorities of India activities for Make, Swachh Bharat, and upgrading farmers’ income.

What are Biofuels?

They are environment-friendly fuels that are gotten from renewable biomass resources. Biofuels usage would address global worries about the suppression of carbon emissions.

Being eco-friendly they give a strategic advantage to advance sustainable development. They likewise supplement conventional energy sources in meeting quickly expanding the need for transportation fuels.

Advantages: Biofuels use can lessen import reliance on crude oil, a cleaner environment, extra income to farmers, and employment generation in rustic regions. Biofuels program is additionally in synergy with Union Government’s initiatives for Make in India, Swachh Bharat, and improving ranchers’ income.

Advantages of the transformation of UCO:

It will help bring health advantages as there would be no recycling of UCO, infrastructural investment in rural territories, employment generation, and cleaner environment with a decreased carbon footprint.

The role of biodiesel isn’t simply to supplant fossil fuel yet to help form a balanced policy. Biofuels are environment-friendly, and their utilization would address global worries about the suppression of carbon emissions.

Significant Biofuel categories in India

Bioethanol: Ethanol created from biomass, for example, sugar-containing materials, starch containing materials, and cellulosic materials.

Biodiesel: a methyl or ethyl ester of fatty acids created from non-edible vegetable oils, acid oil, utilized cooking oil/animal fat and bio-oil.

Advanced biofuels: Fuels which are-

• created from lignocellulosic, non-food crops (for example grasses, algae), or industrial waste and residue streams
• having low CO2 emission/high GHG decrease and don’t contend with food crops for land use. For example Fuels like Second Generation (2G) Ethanol, Drop-in fuels, algae-based 3G biofuels, bio-CNG, bio-methanol, Di Methyl Ether (DME) bio-hydrogen, drop-in fuels with MSW as the source/feedstock material

Drop-in fuels: Any liquid fuel created from Biomass, agri-residues, wastes, for example, Municipal Solid Wastes (MSW), Plastic wastes, Industrial wastes, and so forth.

Bio-CNG: it is a purified form of bio-Gas whose energy potential and composition is like that of fossil-based natural gas.

World Biofuel Day: Significance

Biofuels have the advantage of a decrease of import dependence, a cleaner environment, extra income to farmer, and employment generation. The program identified with biofuel additionally compliments the Government of India’s actions for Make of India, Swacch Bharat, and expanding ranchers’ income. Since 2014, various activities have been initiated to expand the creation and mixing of biofuel.

In India, similar cooking oil is utilized for repeated frying which adversely influences the health because of the formation of polar compounds during frying. These polar compounds are related to diseases, for example, hypertension, atherosclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, liver diseases among others. UCO is either not disposed of at all or discarded in an environmentally risky way choking drains and sewerage systems.

The National Policy on Biofuels, released by the Government of India in 2018, conceives the creation of biofuel from UCO. Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) is actualizing a procedure to divert UCO from the food esteem chain and curb current illicit utilization. The advantages of the transformation of UCO will help bring health advantages as there would be no recycling of the UCO, employment generation, infrastructural investment in country regions, and a cleaner environment with a decreased carbon footprint.

Interactive sessions on Second Generation Ethanol and Biodiesel from UCO will likewise be held. The sessions will concentrate on issues and obstacles being looked at by the sector and dwell on the most proficient method to conquer these obstacles for the successful implementation of the mixing program the nation over.

World Biofuel Day: History

It was in 1893 on August 9, that Sir Rudalph Diesel, who was the inventor of the diesel engine, had run the mechanical engine with Peanut Oil for the first time productively. In understanding to historical past, his examination analysis had anticipated that vegetable oil goes to change the fossil fuels in the subsequent century to gas unique mechanical engines. In an offer to check this phenomenal accomplishment, World Biofuel Day is seen annually on August 10.

The World Biofuel Day is being seen by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas since 2015.