India’s first green methanol plant to turn Kutch weed into marine fuel

A works that has been ranked arsenic 1 of the “top 100 invasive taxon successful the world” and has for decades threatened biodiversity successful Kutch’s Banni grasslands, whitethorn soon beryllium harnessed for the accumulation of greenish methanol and substance for ocean-going ships.

The Mexican-origin shrub called Prosopis juliflora, known arsenic gando baval successful the region, vilayati keekar successful northbound India and velikathan successful Tamil, has crowded retired autochthonal grasses implicit thousands of kilometres successful Kutch. The works was archetypal introduced by the British successful the 1920s to ‘green’ Delhi and by the Gujarat wood section successful 1961 to halt the encroaching brackish godforsaken successful the Rann. This weed is to go the feedstock for India’s archetypal greenish methanol accumulation plant, designed to substance ocean-going ships.