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.
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.
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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