STATE-owned Indian Oil Corp (IOC) today said it has developed technology that will help advance the use of non-edible oil extracted from plants like Jatropha (bio-diesel) in auto fuels. "IOC has successfully developed and commercialised a technology to co-process non-edible vegetable oil in the existing Diesel Hydrotreating (DHDT) units of a petroleum refinery to make bio-diesel," the company said in a statement. This is first time in India, and possibly the first in the world, when Jatropha oil has been used for coprocessing in a petroleum refinery. This technology for co-processing of Jatropha oil has been developed by the R&D Centre of IOC located at Faridabad.
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