Ethanol pilot project

By Our Special Correspondent

MUMBAI, JUNE 25. The Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas, Mr. Ram Naik, commissioned the third pilot project for doping of petrol with ethanol at Bharat Petroleum installation, Panewadi, Maharashtra on Sunday.This project is of immense importance to the country as the same will, besides helping reduce environmental pollution, help ascertain viability of supplementing the limited hydrocarbon resources with ethanol, stated a note from Bharat Petroleum. Though ethanol blended petrol is being used in the U.S. and Brazil, the same is being initiated by the Central Government only now.

The Panewadi project would involve supply of ethanol blended petrol to customers in parts of Nashik, Aurangabad and Ahmednagar districts of Maharashtra. Doping of ethanol, a by-product of the sugar industry, with petrol supplies extra oxygen for complete combustion, resultantly reducing the levels of carbon monoxide in auto emissions.

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