1 Applied Competitive Intelligence Methods for Process Design of Biodiesel Industry Herdy LIOW*, Jacky KISTER**, Henri DOU*** *) PhD Student Science & Technique Faculty Saint-Jérôme Universite Aix Marseille **) CRRM-CNRS UMR 6171–systèmes Chimiques Complexes Formulation-Qualité-Environnement ***) Professeur émérite Université Paul Cézanne, Directeur d’Atelis (ESCEM) Abstract In this paper the author show how to use Competitive Technical Intelligence (CTI) method and tools to design a strategy to perform the best design process in the field of biodiesel industry. Process design involves different systems inter-related and Competitive Technical Intelligence will help to decide according to our strategy and constraints which could be the best process with possible alternatives.. The analysis of research publications and patent will provide some key elements to move to innovative areas according the progress made in that field. Energy will remain a key problem for our society in this XXI first century. The most common energy sources: petroleum feed stock, coal, are non renewable sources (Matt 2007). Hydro, solar , wind and bio sources will a necessary transition to move to stable energy sources. Among these former sources we will focus in this paper to the bio-energy and more specifically to biodiesel. The most common source of bio-diesel is the palm oil which needs to be transesterificated 1 to obtain the biodiesel fuel. The main producers of crude palm oil are in the world: Indonesia, Malaysia, Argentina, USA, Brazil 2 . Palm oil is not the only source for the production of biodiesel. Other sources are available in the world such as: 28% soybean oil, 22% palm oil, 20% animal fats, 11% coconut oil, 5% rapeseed, 5% sunflower and 5% olive oils. We will try to select the best strategy to develop in the North Sulawesi (Indonesia), because this Province is most of the time subject to energy shortage (no oil, almost no coal). 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiesel_production#Base_catalysed_mechanism 2 I.+BACKGROUND | Wartadigital.Com - Satu situs berbagai sumber berita