• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Jayant Godbole

PRAJ Americas, Inc.

President & Director

Mr. Jayant Godbole did his Undergraduate in Chemical Engineer from the UDCT/ICT at Mumbai, India. He also holds a post-graduate diploma in International Business. Before joining PRAJ in 1987, he has worked with a multinational engineering company Alfa Laval in India. He headed the international business division of PRAJ from 1994 to 1999. He has extensive experience in international business development, customer relationship marketing and sales of process plants, technologies and integrated process solutions in India, South East Asia, Africa and the Americas. In 1999 he established PRAJ ’s office for the Americas at Bogota, Colombia. He has worked closely with sugar, corn, alcohol & ethanol industry as also oil & gas and chemical & petro-chemical industry in the Latin America and North America. Since 2007 he has moved to USA and operates from Houston, Texas supporting PRAJ’s business verticals of Alcohol & Ethanol Plants, Process Equipment and Waste Water Systems. His new focus since 2018 is on business development of PRAJ’s Advanced & Cellulosic Biofuels, Bio-chemicals and Renewable Bio-Gas/RNG technologies in the North and South America. He has fluency in English, Spanish apart from Indian languages like Hindi & Marathi. 

Sessions With Jayant Godbole

Monday, 9 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:50pm (CST) / -

    Next Generation Biofuels
    Downstream, Midstream & Chemicals

    Next-generation biofuels continue to be the holy grail of the renewables sector. Despite broad political support for producing transportation fuels and reducing GHG by using waste products, progress has been patchy, and today there is still no large-scale plant in operation. Recently, the outlook for the sector has improved as Asian companies join the well-established market players in Europe and the Americas. What is the current state of play in NextGen biofuels? What are the stumbling blocks to market maturity? What will drive growth in the future? Can NextGen’s life cycle and economics beat conventional biofuels’?