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Jun.11 -- India Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas Secretary Tarun Kapoor discusses India’s plans to cut its dependence on oil imports and how they plan to do it. He speaks exclusively during ...
In 2014, India had 125 ethanol producers, mostly in sugarcane producing states, with a total capacity of 1.25 billion litres of ethanol. [13] India ranks No. 12 in the 2008 Ernst and Young Indices. [14] Earlier in 2003, the national government set a 5% mandated bioethanol blending target for petrol, initiated a program to raise blending ...
In June 2021, India brought forward to 2025 its target to implement a 20% ethanol-blended auto fuel. India's ethanol blending rate in fuel (at the time of this target revision) is 8%, which is set to increase to 10% by 2022 based on the 'Roadmap for ethanol blending in India 2020-25' released on 5 June (World Environment Day) by Prime Minister ...
Mandatory blending of ethanol was approved in Mozambique, but the percentage in the blend has not been specified. [15] South Africa approved a biofuel strategy in 2007, and mandated an 8% blend of ethanol by 2013. [15] A 2007 Uruguayan law mandates a minimum of 5% of ethanol blended with gasoline starting in January 2015. [16]
In October 2007, the Government of India decided to make five percent ethanol blending (with gasoline) mandatory. Currently, 10 percent ethanol blended product (E10) is being sold in various parts of the country. [51] [52] Ethanol has been found in at least one study to damage catalytic converters. [53]
The government, based on the National Biofuel Program, established the mandatory use of all gasoline sold in Costa Rica with a blend of around 7.5% ethanol, starting in October 2008. The implementation phase follows a two-year trial that took place in the provinces of Guanacaste and Puntarenas .
An operating lignocellulosic ethanol production plant is located in Canada, run by Iogen Corporation. [32] The demonstration-scale plant produces around 700,000 litres of bioethanol each year. A commercial plant is under construction. Many further lignocellulosic ethanol plants have been proposed in North America and around the world.
Jatropha curcas is a plant likely native to Mexico and Central America; it has been spread worldwide in tropical regions for medicinal uses. [3] [4] Jatropha oil has been used in India for several decades as biodiesel for the diesel fuel requirements of remote rural and forest communities; jatropha oil can be used directly after extraction (i.e. without refining) in diesel generators and engines.