BS-VI NORMS ROLL OUT IN INDIA

BS-VI NORMS ROLL OUT IN INDIA

BS - VI Norms rollout and its merits and challenges
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The News
• Delhi became the first city to switch to BS VI grade fuel well ahead of the 2020 target in a bid to combat alarming air pollution levels.

cause : to purify the ambient air quality and reduce the air pollutants produce by major source that is automobile sector. since we are committed to paris agreement to reduce emission by 30-33%, indian cities has worse air quality according to latest studies, smog and related health issues to people, to fullfill international norms such as EURO NORMS on vehicles.

earlier target year to implement BS-VI Norms was 2024 but reduced to 2020
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Targets
• India had in 2015 decided to leapfrog to Euro-VI emission norm compliant petrol and diesel from April 2020, from the Euro-IV grade at present.
• ‎13 cities including Noida, Ghaziabad, Gurugram, Faridabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Pune will switch over to cleaner BS-VI grade fuel from January 1 next year.
• ‎Rest of the country will follow suit from April 2020.

About BS-VI
• Vehicular emission (NOx, SO2, CO2 and particulate matter) is a major contributor to the worsening air quality of Indian cities.Bharat Stage VI (BS VI) is an emission standard that will induce technology in the vehicles to reduce pollutant emissions.
• ‎The vehicles will mandatorily include On board diagnostics, which will and monitor the pollution caused by the vehicle in real time.
• ‎NOx emission will come down by approximately 25% for the petrol engine and 68% for the diesel engines.
• ‎BS-VI grade fuel contains 10 parts per million (ppm) of sulphur as against 50 ppm in BS-IV fuels.
• ‎The BS-VI fuel would result in 10-20 per cent reduction in particulate emission when used in BS-IV or lesser grade engines.
• ‎Full benefits will be realized when the automakers start manufacturing BS VI grade engines in their vehicles. The PM emission will see a substantial decrease of 80% in diesel engines.
• ‎The Octane number for petrol engines has improved from 88 in BS-II to 91 as required under BS-VI emission norms.
• ‎Though BS VI is in lines with Euro VI norm, it overcomes the drawback in the Euro VI norm that allows emission of higher PM (particulate matter) in diesel engines.

challenges BS-VI
> bs vi fuel production is done at oil refinaries , here sulfur and heavier component of hydrocarbon is removed which need investment of around 80,000crore by oil marketing companies . question us who is investing and how?
> vehicle engine technology improvement by several round of research and testing of 70,000km which involve cost ,time by auto manufacturers
> at individual level ,the cost of purchase of automobiles and its maintenance will increase
> A Diesel particulate filter (DPF) will be fitted in the automobile to expel particulate matters from the exhaust gas. Similarly, for NOx reduction, selective catalytic reduction (SCR) and exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) will be used. In a nutshell, the engine will now a have a purification plant built into them.

These components and standards will have to be calibrated, tested and validated. The process will be akin to an extensive R&D and will require revamping the automotive product development processes. The cost involved in such a transition is estimated to be huge and some of this cost may have to be passed on to the end-users

> the requisite BS IV compliant fuel that had to be 50 ppm ultra low sulphur was not mandatory and the BS IV vehicles could manage with BS # compliant fuel as well. However, there is no such backward compatibility in case of BS VI vehicles.

According to some of the reports, many oil refineries are now equipped to produce BS VI compliant fuel and will soon be able to give out samples for testing

India to switch to world's cleanest petrol, diesel from Apr 1

Originally, Delhi and its adjoining towns were to have BS-VI fuel supplies by April 2019 and the rest of the country was to get same supplies from April 2020. But oil marketing companies switched over to supply of BS-VI grade fuels in the national capital territory of Delhi on April 1, 2018.

HIGHLIGHTS

India adopted Euro-III equivalent (or Bharat Stage-III) fuel with a sulphur content of 350 ppm in 2010 and then took seven years to move to BS-IV

From BS-IV to BS-VI it took just three years

BS-VI has a sulphur content of just 10 ppm and emission standards are as good as CNG.

Originally, Delhi and its adjoining towns were to have BS-VI fuel supplies by April 2019 and the rest of the country was to get same supplies from April 2020. But oil marketing companies switched over to supply of BS-VI grade fuels in the national capital territory of Delhi on April 1, 2018.

NEW DELHI: India will switch to the world's cleanest petrol and diesel from April 1 as it leapfrogs straight to Euro-VI emission compliant fuels from Euro-IV grades now - a feat achieved in just three years and not seen in any of the large economies around the globe. India will join the select league of nations using petrol and diesel containing just 10 parts per million of sulphur as it looks to cut vehicular emissions that are said to be one of the reasons for the choking pollution in major cities.

Sanjiv Singh, Chairman of Indian Oil Corp (IOC) - the firm that controls roughly half of the country's fuel market, said almost all refineries began producing ultra-low sulphur BS-VI (equivalent to Euro-VI grade) petrol and diesel by the end of 2019 and oil companies have now undertaken the tedious task of replacing every drop of fuel in the country with the new one.

"We are absolutely on track for supplying BS-VI fuel from April 1. Almost all refineries have begun supplying BS-VI fuel and the same has reached storage depots across the country," he said.


From storage depots, the fuel has started travelling to petrol pumps and in the next few weeks all of them will only have BS-VI grade petrol and diesel, he said. "We are 100 per cent confident that fuel that will flow from nozzles at all the petrol pumps in the country on April 1 will be BS-VI emission compliant fuel."

India adopted Euro-III equivalent (or Bharat Stage-III) fuel with a sulphur content of 350 ppm in 2010 and then took seven years to move to BS-IV that had a sulphur content of 50 ppm. From BS-IV to BS-VI it took just three years.

"It was a conscious decision to leapfrog to BS-VI as first upgrading to BS-V and then shifting to BS-VI would have prolonged the journey to 4 to 6 years. Besides, oil refineries, as well as automobile manufacturers, would have had to make investments twice - first to producing BS-V grade fuel and engines and then BS-VI ones," he said.


State-owned oil refineries spent about Rs 35,000 crore to upgrade plants that could produce ultra-low sulphur fuel. This investment is on top of Rs 60,000 crore they spent on refinery upgrades in the previous switchovers.

BS-VI has a sulphur content of just 10 ppm and emission standards are as good as CNG.

Originally, Delhi and its adjoining towns were to have BS-VI fuel supplies by April 2019 and the rest of the country was to get same supplies from April 2020.


But oil marketing companies switched over to supply of BS-VI grade fuels in the national capital territory of Delhi on April 1, 2018.

The supply of BS-VI fuels was further extended to four contiguous districts of Rajasthan and eight of Uttar Pradesh in the National Capital Region (NCR) on April 1, 2019, together with the city of Agra.

BS-VI grade fuels were made available in 7 districts of Haryana from October 1, 2019.


Singh said the new fuel will result in a reduction in NOx in BS-VI compliant vehicles by 25 per cent in petrol cars and by 70 per cent in diesel cars.

The switchover, he said, is a tedious task as every drop of old, higher-sulphur cont