The Bihar government approved Bihar Biofuels Production Promotion Policy, 2023, which will pave the way for production of compressed biogas (CBG) apart from ethanol in the state. CBG is produced from biomass and waste sources like agricultural residue, cattle dung, sugar cane press mud, municipal solid waste and sewage treatment …
Congress should transform the $6 billion a year ethanol tax credit into a program that underwrites the installation of "blender" pumps and pipelines so biofuels are more widely available, the largest U.S. farm group said on Tuesday. The 45-cent a gallon tax credit, which goes to gasoline blenders, expires at …
RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI In a surprise move the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and ICAT has come up with a study that claims diesel is less polluting than CNG. The study, titled
ADB initiated the study on the Cross-Sectoral Implications of Biofuel Production and Use with the objective of generating scientific information on biofuel production and its use to facilitate implementation of the biofuel policy by the Government of India. The broad objective of the ADB assignment is to identify the policy …
Biofuels produced from various lignocellulosic biomass such as agro forest residues have been recognized to have potential, to be available substitute for or compliment to gasolines. These biofuels derived from plant materials have the potential to address the two main issues - carbon neutral and renewable. In addition they are …
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from U.S. oil companies and refiners against the Environmental Protection Agency for retroactively imposing ethanol blending levels and volume requirements for gasoline sales. Federal law requires the EPA to set by November 30 each year the amount of ethanol that must …
Gireesh Chandra Prasad The government may have to scale down its ambitious programme of doping petrol as availability of ethanol is far short of demand. Besides, another powerful user industry for ethanol
This study analyzes the long-term impacts of large-scale expansion of biofuels on land-use change, food supply and prices, and the overall economy in various countries or regions using a global computable general equilibrium model, augmented by a land-use module and detailed representation of biofuel sectors. The study finds that an …
Kunal Bose / November 30, 2010, 0:05 IST The other day the director general of Indian Sugar Mills Association Abinash Verma made an impassioned plea for the central government to announce the final price of ethanol to be procured by oil marketing companies (OMCs) for blending with petrol. Till such …
In his news story "Is there a road ahead for cellulosic ethanol?" (Special section on Scaling up Alternative Energy, 13 August, p. 784), R. F. Service identifies factors contributing to fading enthusiasm for cellulosic ethanol and observes that policy-makers' decisions this year could shape the nascent U.S. biofuels industry for …
Even as ethanol blending is gathering steam, the biodiesel blending programme has failed to take off, due to issues like higher raw material prices, marketing and double taxation by state governments. Investment of around Rs 2,300 crore in creating a biodiesel capacity of 1.2 million tonnes is stuck, according to …
TIRUNELVELI: Two scientists of Sri Paramakalyani Centre of Excellence in Environmental Sciences (SPKCEES), affiliated to Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, have extracted fuel from agro-waste. C. Sathesh Prabu, a post-doctoral researcher of the centre, who is working on advanced research on bio-ethanol production from lignocellulosic agro-waste along with A.G. Murugesan, Professor, SPKCEES, …
IRKED with the draft report of an expert panel recommending the scaling down of the much-vaunted programe to blend ethanol with petrol, the food ministry has gone formally bawling to the Planning Commission. The ministry has complained that the panel headed by planning commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri has
Ethanol blending with petrol has resumed after more than a year. Last week, sale of blended petrol started in Bangalore, Mathura and parts of Gujarat. While blending will be gradually extended to the other parts of the country, the quantity of ethanol contracted so far is insufficient to continue the …
The tussle between sugar and ethanol lobby over ethanol blending has taken a new turn. The expert committee on ethanol pricing, headed by Planning Commission member Saumitra Chaudhuri, wants the quantity of ethanol for blending to be restricted to 400 million litres as of now. This is not even half …
FOOD minister Sharad Pawar has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh seeking his intervention on the contentious issue of pricing ethanol for the Centre's ambitious 5% blending programme (EBP), even though an expert panel headed by Plan panel member Saumitra Chaudhri recommended capping ethanol supply at around …
AN EXPERT panel on ethanol pricing is likely to suggest that the chemicals industry should be assured a certain minimum supply of this key raw material, dealing a blow to the much-hyped programme for blending of ethanol with petrol, which would have to be curtailed sharply. The panel headed by …
This study implements a new methodology developed by the JRC IES and IE for estimating changes in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from soil and above- and below-ground biomass resulting from global land use changes caused by the production of biofuels. The methodology is based on the Tier 1 approach as …
Brazil's ethanol fuel production will reach 64 billion litres in the year 2019, more than twice the amount currently produced, the Mines and Energy Minister Marcio Zimmerman said on September 20.
U.S. regulators are likely to approve a higher blend of ethanol in U.S. gasoline shortly, an ethanol producers group and the top U.S. agriculture official each said on Friday, and the new fuel mix could be selling at the pump by next spring. Ethanol companies and corn traders are anxiously …
