Government Starts Trial of Bensa, Fuel from Palm Oil

The government, through the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) in collaboration with the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), conducted a trial of making gasoline with industrial palm oil or demo plant-scale benzene for motorized vehicles.

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources, Arifin Tasrif, said that benzene was directed not only for testing, but also for mass production. "Currently Bensa is still in the pilot project stage, it still takes a long struggle to get to the commercial stage," said Arifin, quoted from Antara (25/1/2022). "But from the laboratory scale, from the pilot plant, of course we can take important parameters towards a commercial production scale," he said. According to the plan, the government has a target to produce 238.5 kiloliters of gasoline per day, which will be built in Musi Banyuasin Regency (South Sumatra) and Pelalawan Regency (Riau). "From the current pilot plant scale of 1,000 liters of feed per day, it can also produce benzene fuel which, when the catalyst is fresh, can produce fuel with a Research Octane Number (RON) 115, a high-quality fuel," said Arifin.

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