Vietnam: Japanese Government to Spend $5 Million for Bioethanol Project in Vietnam
In Vietnam, Saigon’s official communist paper announced a project to study and develop technologies necessary for the production of biofuel from biomass. The (communist standard) five-year “Sustainable Integration of Local Agriculture and Biomass Industries” project — with the help of $5 Million from the Japanese Government — will study an produce bioethanol from straw. Vietnam, and specifically Ho Chi Minh City, is betting big on biogas and bioethanol.
The goal is to mix ethanol with the existing gasoline infrastructure to reduce Vietnam’s dependancy on foreign imports and cut environmental pollution. A 10 percent ethanol blend ratio in the country’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, would require 100 to 150 million liters per year. This amount can be covered by the single plant.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Science and Technology has already implemented a project with the support of Tokyo University of Japan to study technology related to reusing waste in cultivation and breeding to create energy and fertilizer. The goal: enhance income for farmers in rural areas and build out a green agricultural infrastructure that doesn’t produce waste.
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Sírs: You are missing the fundamentals here.
You can make over 40% ò the Country ò Viet Nam’s needs in Ethanol from Wastes discarded in the Municipal Solid Waste sector alone.
Imagine the issue where for example in Ho Chi-Minh City the 8000 tonnes per day of Municipal Solid Waste (the fraction which we hear about) is converted to almost 630 million litres of ethanol per year using the proprietary Genesyst Waste to Ethanol process and the use of its patented gravity pressure vessel. The process which is fully vetted by the EU and UK is being rolled out in a massive development in Malta (with three plants which will produce over 300 million litres of ethanol per year) the UK (with two large plants to produce over 400 million litres of ethanol per year) in Morocco (with a major development which will be located in 100 cities and produce over 50% of the country’s needs in fuel grade ethanol by the early 2020s) in Israel and beyond.
As a country, you in Viet Nam, cannot afford to use food waste when you have so much Municipal Solid Waste available for the same purpose. The Genesyst process can produce Ethanol from waste at a cost which is by far the lowest of all systems around and is a world beater.
Go for it.
To me this looks like the best process ever. The simplicity of the Genesyst Waste to Ethanol procedures using the patented gravity pressure vessel – a very well-proved and simple autothermic tubular device that was previously used in wet air oxidation of sewage sludge – is unquestionably the best use of technology ever. This speeds up and updates the process that was the mainstay of the acidification hyrolysis procedures (dilute acid hydrolysis) used in the 20th Century before the “wxpensive chemical processes” were even considered.
This is the process which Genesyst is using at the yorkshire project (Britain) by the company Mytumm and Selby on their Maltings Organic Treatment plant (I read about following the previous comments) which at GB£70 million will be producing 75 million liters of ethanol by 2014, and it is also being used in the Malta Bioethanol facility by Applied Biofuels Limited a further €90 million project to make 87 million liters of ethanol by 2014, and in Morocco and Israel.
What I didnot realise though is that Genesyst is working in Hardenberg holland and its sister company Agresti Biofuels has also a project in Ho Chi Minh City which will be the fore-runner of a further 40 such projects in the whole of Viet Nam.
The particular interest I see though from Italy is the fact that by using Waste and Sea Weed (in this case Farmed lagoons grown in shallow 400 mm lagoons and in arid-desert regions) there is no impact on the food chain and as its technology is so simple and cheap it would provide a cheap and effective means to produce bioethanol at less than the Brazilians.
Go for it and lets see more of these developments by Geneyst and Applied Biofuels.