Kosan Crisplant Providing Breathing Space with Lpg Cylinders

By Kaj Lehmkuhl, Kosan Crisplant

Kosan Crisplant is helping the people of sub-Saharan Africa to change from wood and charcoal fires to bottled lpg, a cleaner and more reliable fuel source that is better for people’s health and the environment.

In 2005, Kosan Crisplant Cameroon founded Glocalgaz, a company dedicated to filling and distributing bottled lp gas in sub-Saharan Africa with a view to helping local people to a safer, cleaner and more reliable source of energy and to give the rainforest and our climate much needed breathing space.

The introduction of lpg gas cylinders and safer regulators to this market is slowly showing its impact on the environment, and bottled energy is gradually spreading from the densely populated communities to more remote areas.

The climate has always been in a state of change, changes with a fundamental impact on the Earth and life on it. Human emissions of CO2 are said to escalate climate change. Climate protection is part of Kosan Crisplant’s business. We monitor the use of green energy and support initiatives that move the world towards it.

We are proud that the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009 is taking place in Copenhagen in Denmark. This is a unique chance for world leaders and others to agree on substantial initiatives to handle problems arising from global warming. It is not only about politics and convenient media announcements, but more about how products, services and production methods throughout the world can contribute to climate protection, and how supranational bodies and nations to large corporations, businesses, organisations and every one of us can contribute. It is a mindset and one that Kosan Crisplant takes very seriously.

By way of example, in the oil fields in Africa, it is quite common to only exploit the crude oil extracted and burn the gas that comes up with it. Crude oil contains characteristics that typically also provide for the extraction of 2-3 per cent clean lp gas, but since fuel oil and petrol are the main interest, the lpg gas is burnt off as a waste product instead of being exploited.

The burning process, or flaring, causes great damage to the environment since it allows huge emissions of CO2 and micro particles into the atmosphere, while people also chop down trees for firewood and charcoal for open fireplaces and, as a consequence, create additional emissions of CO2.

With global emissions in excess of 400 million tons of CO2 annually, flaring greatly contributes to climate change. Most sub-Sahara refineries are over 30 years old and so technologically outdated, which again causes increased pollution compared to more modern plants.

Compared to firewood and charcoal, which are the most common forms of energy in Africa, lp gas emits far less CO2. Each time a 12kg lpg gas cylinder is used as alternative energy, it saves 138kg of CO2.

By replacing firewood and charcoal with lp gas, consumers help reduce the vast levels of deforestation in all African countries. In addition, lpg emits about 20 per cent less CO2 than heating oil and 50 per cent less than coal, so lp gas also beats these sources in environmental friendliness.

The Kosan Crisplant Group has invested massively in new technology that sets the basis for more flexibility and far better utilisation of the production of bottled energy aimed at both small production sites and large centralised industrial facilities.

Easy non-stop handling keeps the cylinders on the move. With the latest technology, the bottling process in itself is not only more advanced, lean and cost-efficient but, if need be, speeded up to capacities beyond belief and at far lower costs per filled unit compared to conventional technology.

It has sparked the future of lp gas filling everywhere and it boosts the use of bottled energy as the filling plants can move their lpg gas cylinders faster and keep them in circulation, in some areas even breaking new territory.

Kosan Crisplant is proud to be part of this process.

Contact Kosan Crisplant on +45 87 403000 www.kosancrisplant.com

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