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Business plan : growing Jatropha trees for producing and commercializing biodiesel made from Jatropha seeds in Vietnam

AuthorNguyen Dai My
NoteA project study submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Business Administration (Executive) in International Business – Management of Technology (VN), School of Management
PublisherAsian Institute of Technology
AbstractWith the development of economic of the world, the living standard of people has been improving much in general. This leads to the increasing of using energy, especially fossil fuel, to produce more consumer goods to serve people and to adapt to the increasing demand of transportation as a whole. Fossil fuel supplies energy to produce goods and to transport people and goods on one hand, on the other hand it delivers green house gases such as CO, CO2, SOx which have caused bad effects to environment and in turn environment has caused natural catastrophes to human lives. Realizing problems, people nowadays are trying to use fossil fuel more efficiently by improving the efficiencies of machines, equipments or transportation means. People also find and use increasingly renewable energies such as Wind energy, Solar energy, and Tidal energy or bio fuels such as biodiesel, biogasoline, biogas…etc [1]. Bio fuels are receiving much attention nowadays as they are generally familiar with fossil fuel while a huge green house gas amount can be reduced by using them and developing trees as sources of raw materials to produce them. In line with that trend, this business plan presents a plan to develop Jatropha trees, produce biodiesel from seeds of Jatropha trees and commercializing it in Vietnam
Year2009
TypeProject
SchoolSchool of Management (SOM)
DepartmentOther Field of Studies (No Department)
Academic Program/FoSMaster of Business Administration (Executive) in International Business - Management of Technology (VN/BKK))
Chairperson(s)Winai Wongsurawat;
Examination Committee(s)Huynh Trung Luong;Bechter, Clemens ;


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