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Bangladesh will start using maize, broken rice grains and molasses to produce ethanol to mix with petrol fuel at a 5.0 per cent ratio, according to a Reuters report.
The government has taken the decision in a gazette notification early this year to make its fuel greener, energy ministry officials said.
However, economists and experts of the country warn the move could hurt food security in a country, said the report.
Energy ministry officials said in a gazette notification early this year that the country will begin using maize, broken rice grains and molasses to produce ethanol to mix with petrol fuel at a 5 percent ratio.
According to a study by Bangladesh´s energy ministry, the country could produce 18 million liters of ethanol a year, or about 75,000 liters each working day.
That would require 60,000 tonnes of broken rice each year - about 3.5 per cent of the country´s total production.
Alternately the county could produce the ethanol with 62,000 tonnes of maize (2.8 percent of production) or 97,000 tonnes of molasses (nearly all of the country´s production).
The study warned that if the government scales up ethanol production beyond those levels, it will raise demand for grain to the point that it could hurt food security.
But junior energy minister Nasrul Hamid told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone that Bangladesh needs to go for greener and more varied fuels in the future, like other nations.
"So, we are exploring the possibility of using bio-ethanol with other fuels. You can´t remain out from the global trend of energy use," he said.
He confirmed the ministry plans to give permission for ethanol production, and then would judge from early experience whether to scale up the experiment.
source: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.c...angladesh-plans-to-use-grains-to-produce-fuel
The government has taken the decision in a gazette notification early this year to make its fuel greener, energy ministry officials said.
However, economists and experts of the country warn the move could hurt food security in a country, said the report.
Energy ministry officials said in a gazette notification early this year that the country will begin using maize, broken rice grains and molasses to produce ethanol to mix with petrol fuel at a 5 percent ratio.
According to a study by Bangladesh´s energy ministry, the country could produce 18 million liters of ethanol a year, or about 75,000 liters each working day.
That would require 60,000 tonnes of broken rice each year - about 3.5 per cent of the country´s total production.
Alternately the county could produce the ethanol with 62,000 tonnes of maize (2.8 percent of production) or 97,000 tonnes of molasses (nearly all of the country´s production).
The study warned that if the government scales up ethanol production beyond those levels, it will raise demand for grain to the point that it could hurt food security.
But junior energy minister Nasrul Hamid told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by telephone that Bangladesh needs to go for greener and more varied fuels in the future, like other nations.
"So, we are exploring the possibility of using bio-ethanol with other fuels. You can´t remain out from the global trend of energy use," he said.
He confirmed the ministry plans to give permission for ethanol production, and then would judge from early experience whether to scale up the experiment.
source: http://www.thefinancialexpress-bd.c...angladesh-plans-to-use-grains-to-produce-fuel
