HEAVEN Biodiesel Production and Distribution for Automobile Transportation in Lima Peru

This Project will take place in Lurín – Lima; the total area is around 30,100 square meters. The project consists in the construction of a Biodiesel plant for a production of 60,000 gallons per day or 82,782,000 liters per year. The biodiesel will be use as a substitute of diesel, furthermore any conventional diesel engine can use diesel mixed with biodiesel. It is expected that the project will reduce Green House Gases since, the combustion of Biodiesel or any kind of sustainable biomass is considered to have no net impact on carbon dioxide emissions, because the Carbon dioxide emitted upon combustion is assumed to be exactly offset by the capture of Carbon dioxide during the re-growth of the biomass.

The project will reduce 223,182 tCO2e per year that otherwise will be emitted to the atmosphere.

Baseline Scenario

Which emissions are the proposed Clean Development Mechanism CDM project displacing?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions emitted by diesel automobile engines.
What would the future look like without the proposed CDM project?
Diesel cars will still use pure diesel in their engines emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) among other pollutants of high local negative impact. Currently none cars in Peru use biodiesel. For diesel trucks and cars is hard to convert to natural gas so it is expected that the use of diesel will still be a common practice.
What would the estimated total greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction be without the project?
The project will reduce 223,182 tCO2e annually by displacing 82,782,000 liters per year of diesel that otherwise will be combusted in automobile diesel engines.

Current Status

Earliest project start date
January 2006
Estimate of time required before becoming operational
2 months
What is the project lifetime?
Indefinite
Current status or phase of the project:
• Engineering studies are finished
• The feasibility study is finished
• Civil Works under execution
• Machinery Works under execution

Estimated Emission Reductions

Annual: an average of 223,182 tCO2-equivalents

• Up to and including 2012: 1,562,278 tCO2e
• Up to a period of 7 years: 1,562,278 tCO2e
• Up to a period of 10 years: 2,231,824 tCO2e
• Up to a period of 14 years: 3,124,556 tCO2e

Project Benefits

• The Project fulfills the European standards of Peru and local people.
• Support it development.
• Biodiesel is a clean fuel because it does not content sulphur. In the other hand diesel has a high content of sulphur and with combustion emit sulphur dioxide a high impact local pollutant.
• The principal effect is the decrease of pollution at local and global level, which would not happen in absence of the project.
• The project will contribute significantly to reducing global warming by displacing 2,231,824 tCO2e during 10 years.

Project Participant and Financing

Total project cost estimate: US$1,500,000
• Machinery and equipment: – – –
• Working Capital: – – –
• Total project costs: US$ 1,500,000
The Project is executed by HERCO S.A. financial contribution.

Sources of finance to be sought or already identified:
• Equity: – – –
• Debt: – – –
• Carbon finance contribution sought: As much as we can have in advance.

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