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Ethanol Production in AsiaTaking a cue, the Union Ministry of Petroleum in India had also made it mandatory for nine States and four Union Territories to blend five per cent ethanol in petrol from last year. The government has already announced pilot trials for introducing 10 per cent blending. the requirement for fuel ethanol in India would grow multi-fold when diesel blending comes into force.Pioneering the production of this fuel is Pune-based Praj Industries Limited, that recently successfully commissioned the first molecular sieve-based plant in Uttar Pradesh for production of Fuel Ethanol. The plant operates using the latest instrumentation and process control systems. . The company has entered into a technical collaboration with Delta T USA, a year ago. Till date, they have successfully commissioned two plants in India (incidentally, the first two plants in South/South East Asia to be operated on Molecular Sieve Technology). Four more plants are under various stages of execution and many under finalisation. Praj has also expanded its R & D centre (perhaps the only one in the private sector dedicated to a future energy resource like ethanol) called MATRIX The Innovation Center in Pune. The R & D centre works with renewable agro-based resources like sugarcane molasses, cane juice, sweet sorghum (a new variety of sorghum) and tropical sugar beet for production of ethanol. This page is 'under development'. Add your content here (remove this line). [top] [end]Related topics[top] [end]External links and references[top] [end]ContributorsUser:James Robinson 13 April 2007 | |
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