Ethanol blending in India increased

Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri said that ethanol blending in petrol rose to 10.17 per cent in July 2022 from 1.53 per cent in 2013-14, Setting up 2G refineries to make ethanol from the paddy stubble in Panipat and bamboo in Numaligarh with the twin objective of reducing pollution along with

Number of crude oil suppliers to India increased

India increased the number of its crude oil suppliers from 27 countries in 2006-07 to 39 in 2021-22 and attributed the growth to the addition of new suppliers like Columbia, Russia, Libya, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea while India strengthened its relationship with countries like US and Russia. Union minister for petroleum and natural gas Hardeep

Gadkari stresses need to decarbonise Indian transport sector

Addressing virtually at the Sugar and Ethanol Conference, Minister of Road Transport & Highways, Nitin Gadkari said there is a need to decarbonise the transport sector of India as it has the potential to become a torch-bearer in bio-fuels. He stated that the Indian transport industry has fulfilled 80 per cent of its fuel usage

Zagros and Dalian agreed for construction of methanol conversion plant

Zagros Petrochemical Company and China’s Dalian Petrochemical Company have signed a contract, based on which the latter will transfer knowhow to build a plant for the conversion of methanol to synthetic ethanol to the Iranian company, the managing director of Zagros Petrochemical Company said. With this initiative, Zagros Petrochemical Company is taking a major step

First ethanol plant in Chhattisgarh to begin operations in April 2023

Ethanol plant will start in Kawardha of Chhattisgarh from April 2023. This will be the first ethanol plant in the state to be built on the PPP model. According to the state government, initially, 80 kilo litres of ethanol will be produced per day in the plant located near Bhoramdev Sugar Factory. For this, after

Increasing ethanol price made from damaged grains under consideration

The government may consider increasing the price of ethanol made from damaged foodgrains by 2-3 rupees per ltr. Currently, the price at which oil marketing companies buy ethanol made from damaged foodgrains has been fixed at 52.92 rupees per ltr. The move is necessary as input and transportation cost of damaged foodgrains has increased due

Researchers improve catalyst for ethanol conversion

RUDN University chemists have improved the catalyst for ethanol conversion. With it, a mixture of compounds with a high-octane number was obtained. This was achieved thanks to a special substrate for the activated carbon catalyst. In the future, such developments will help to obtain more environmentally friendly fuel additives and thus reduce the carbon footprint.

Petrol with a blend of 20% ethanol to be introduced soon in India

After achieving the target to sell petrol doped with 10 per cent ethanol, India will in the next couple of days start experimental supplies of 20 per biofuel mixed petrol, oil minister Hardeep Singh Puri said. Speaking at the ‘Dance to Decarbonise’ – the first public awareness event in the run-up to India Energy Week

ArcelorMittal’s steel plant to produce ethanol from CCU

ArcelorMittal successfully inaugurated its flagship carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project in Ghent, Belgium. The €200 million Steelanol project is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. Utilizing cutting edge carbon recycling technology developed by our project partner LanzaTech, the CCU plant uses biocatalysts to transform carbon-rich waste gases from the steelmaking

Indian Government vehicles over 15 years will be scrapped

Union minister Nitin Gadkari said all vehicles belonging to the Indian government that have completed 15 years will be scrapped, and a policy to that effect has been sent to states. He was speaking at the inauguration of the annual ‘Agro-Vision’ agriculture exhibition here. Addressing the gathering, Gadkari said two plants of the Indian Oil