Ethanol Production from Bamboo
Introduction India’s objective is to become self-sufficient in energy and reducing its dependence in crude oil import form oil reach country. Bio ethanol is one option for becoming india self suffient in energy. The country’s first biorefinery, Assam Bio Refinery, built by Chempolis technology, is a new joint venture that will be the only refinery in the world to create bioethanol from bamboo – available in abundance in north-eastern India. Food crops like beet and sugarcane, rich in starch and carbohydrates, are currently the leading sources of ethanol. But ethanol, made from the cellulose of trees and grasses, could be even more promising. And bamboo, which isn’t generally a food crop, seems ideally suited for this purpose. Leveraging bamboo so that energy consumers and food consumers aren’t competing for the same crop is one advantage. A fossil fuel, petroleum comes from fossils takes about a hundred million years to replace. Bamboo takes only about five yea...