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Wartsila to build world's first jatropha powered CHP plant in Belgium

Apr 2008 - Finnish engineering firm Wärtsilä yesterday announced it had clinched an $11m deal to build the world's first engine-driven combined heat power and power (CHP) plant, designed to run off crude jatropha oil. The company said the CHP plant will deliver both heat and electricity by burning the liquid biofuel, which is extracted from seeds of the jathropha plant and has been widely touted by experts as a potentially environmentally sustainable source of biofuel. - Read More

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