28 January 2015 - 14:39
  • News ID: 233987
Biofuel Technical Knowhow within Reach

TEHRAN Jan 28(Shana)--Iran has acquired the technical knowhow for production of biofuel.

Renewable energies department of presidential office announced this, adding that a biofuel production pilot plan has been launched in Shiraz with production capacity of 1.000liters per day.

Head of developing renewable energies at scientific department of presidency Akbar Shabanikia underlined the importance of using ethanol in the country, saying the product is a very appropriate fuel for being used by vehicles.

According to Shabanikia, ethanol, which is a plant-based fuel, is produced from wastes and blending 4 percent of it to vehicles fuel could improve the performance of engines considerably.

Assuming daily gasoline consumption of the country at 60 million liters, blending 4 percent of bioethanol to gasoline could reduce fuel consumption by 2.5 million liters per day, helping to reduction of pollution and enjoying clean air, he noted.

Ethanol fuel is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline.

World ethanol production for transport fuel tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters. From 2007  to 2008, the share of ethanol in global gasoline type fuel use increased from 3.7%  to 5.4. In 2011 worldwide ethanol fuel production reached 22.36  billion U.S. liquid gallons (bg) (84.6 billion liters), with the United States as the top producer with 13.9  bg (52.6 billion liters), accounting for 62.2% of global production, followed by Brazil with 5.6  bg (21.1 billion liters. Ethanol fuel has a "gasoline gallon equivalency" (GGE) value of 1.5  US gallons (5.7 L), which means 1.5  gallons of ethanol produces the energy of one gallon of gasoline.

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