Project

The proposed plant of BioD Technology will be located in Jebel Ali Free Zone.

BioD proposes to manufacture Biodiesel, a renewable fuel from vegetable oil. The plant will utilize otherwise wasted and difficult to dispose materials as input (e.g. used cooking oil, Tallow, Palm acid oil, Crude palm oil) and convert them into useful Biodiesel. The Biodiesel will have same performance as that of diesel. The technology selected can process any free fatty acids (FFA) raw material and thereby able to procure low value raw and can manufacture high grade Bio diesel which comply with EN 14214 standard.

BioD Technology engaged the Consultant to prepare Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) and Risk Assessment (RA) study reports for the Biodiesel plants.

Assignment

The scope of work of the EIA study included:

• Preparation of project description.
• Identification of potential environmental impacts of the project.
• Air quality dispersion modeling using AERMOD software to predict the impacts of air emissions from the project.
• Evaluation of significant environmental impacts during construction and operation phases
• Preparation of detailed mitigation measures and development of environmental management plans for construction and operation phase.
• Submission of the EIA study report to regulatory authority to obtain environmental clearance.

The scope of work of the RA study included:

• Preparing a project description.
• Identification of hazards from handling and storage of chemicals.
• Identification of process hazards of the project, HAZOP study method
• Defining damage criteria
• Consequence analysis modeling for accidental release of flammable liquids
• Failure frequency and event tree analysis
• Occupational health assessment
• Review of safety distances as per NFPA standards
• Review of fire protection systems and recommendation of fire protection system as per NFPA standards

Project undertaken by KEC team member