A video explains how India will benefit from mixing ethanol with petrol.
A video explains how India will benefit from mixing ethanol with petrol.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India has achieved its target of blending 10% sugarcane-extracted ethanol into petrol ahead of schedule.
Mixing ethanol with petrol to burn less fossil fuel while driving vehicles is called ethanol blending. Ethanol is an agricultural by-product obtained primarily from the processing of sugar from sugarcane, but also from other sources such as rice bran or maize. Currently, 10% of the petrol that drives your vehicle is ethanol.
With a view to augment the supply of ethanol, the government has allowed procurement of ethanol produced from sources other than molasses (which is 1G), such as rice straw, wheat straw, corn kernels, corn stover, bagasse, Bamboo and Woody Biomass – or 2G .
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