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| As a result of air clean regulations, agricultural interests, and energy security needs, the production of Bio-ethanol which can be used as an automotive fuel by itself or mixed with conventional fuels, becomes more and more necessary. There were no professional fuel ethanol plants in China before 2000. After nearly 8 years of development, the output of production of fuel ethanol in China has reached 1.02 million tons per year by the end of 2006, and the fuel ethanol production technology is becoming more mature. China has become the third producer of fuel ethanol in the world. Nowadays the most important issue that China fuel ethanol industry facing is the challenge of the diversification of raw materials. From the end of 2006, China government no longer approved the construction of ethanol plants using corn as feedstock. Cassava, sweet potato and sweet sorghum began to become the most competitive raw materials. The fuel ethanol plant of 200,000 MTA using cassava as feedstock, is being under construction in Guangxi province by Biological Energy limited Company of COFCO, and is going to startup in the end of 2007. PetroChina is preparing to build a number of fuel ethanol plants with raw materials of sweet potato. Up to now, the pilot fuel ethanol plants of sweet sorghum and lignocellulose are in the test stage. |
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Green Chemistry for Sustainable Energy Supply and Conversion
8:15 AM-12:15 PM, Monday, April 7, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 242, Oral
Division of Fuel Chemistry |