KAI, Servo Railway Collaborate to Design B100-Run Locomotive
by Faisal Yunianto and Sri Haryati (Antara News) State-owned railway company PT Kereta Api Indonesia (KAI) Persero is working with private logistical railway service firms Servo Railway and Progress Rail for designing locomotives run on B100 biodiesel.
The cooperation is a follow-up of the government’s plan to step up palm oil-based fuel consumption for domestic transportation.
“We are targeting B100 as fuel oil, as we are one of the world’s largest producers of fuel oil. We have signed a memorandum of understanding and striven to engineer our assets to make it compatible with the B100 biodiesel,” PT KAI’s President Director Edi Sukmoro noted in a statement here on Monday.
B100 is a diesel fuel containing 100 percent fatty acid methyl esters from crude palm oil (CPO).
The MoU was inked on Saturday (Sept 28) during the commemoration of KAI’s 74th anniversary in Bandung, West Java.
Sukmoro confirmed that the company has already used 20 percent blended biodiesel (B20) for its trains. It has conducted a trial on the use of B30 biodiesel and will gradually develop the asset to make it compatible with B100 biodiesel.
“Now, we already use B20 biodiesel, and we are preparing for the use of B30, B40, and B50 and progressing to B100. We have more than 200 trains,” he stated. READ MORE
