iLembe Biodiesel Project
The Project will be located on a site still to be identified in one of the four Local Municipalities.
The Bio Diesel Processing Facility and Moringa Tree Planting Project involves the planning, construction and operation of a sustainable, community based rural bio diesel production facility.
The scope of supply of the project entails the following activities, namely,
- To Construct and commission a self contained bio diesel production facility producing a minimum 25 000 L per month of high quality bio diesel from suitable feedstock.
The facility will be self-contained and capable of producing its own power and water.
This facility will be built to allow for the expansion of the plant to go up to 3million L per annum.
Once the Moringa Project is operational, a, a few modules will be added to this facility reachingfacility reaching the 3 million liters annual output;
- To Provide a suitable supply of feedstock oil to the bio diesel production facility;
- To Provide a suitable off-take source for bio diesel produced from the facility;
- To Provide technical expertise to commission, train and assist local community in the operation of the bio diesel facility.
The Bio diesel facility project (together with the Moringa Project) aims to:
- Create a mechanism for sustainable economic development and wealth generation for rural communities.
- Create a platform for the integration of small scale producers into the existing petrochemical, agriculture and transportation industries.
- Encourage real broad based black economic participation in both the emerging bio fuels industry as well as in the established petrochemicals industry.
- Act as a mechanism to initiate regional common infrastructure development ege.g. roads and off grid electrical supply.
- Provide an avenue for base level farming as well as high-level engineering and management training and skills transfer to participating local community members.
- Provide a vehicle for improving the food security and crop diversity of participating communities through the access to cheap fertilizer and animal feed by products generated by the bio diesel production unit.
- Provide the stimulus to the development of secondary industries e.g. soap making, anti-freeze manufacturing, off-grid electrification schemes via the utilization of the bio diesel production unit by products.
- Provide a mechanism to prove the viability of medium scale community based bio diesel projects so as to facilitate private sector investments in future CPPP bio diesel projects.