Alternative Fuels

Ajay Modi / New Delhi September 3, 2010, 1:15 IST Offers 1,000 million litres ethanol to OMCs. The sugar industry has offered to supply around 1,000 million litres ethanol to oil marketing companies for blending it with petrol.

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Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 31, 2010, 0:20 IST Demand that the deposit fee sought by OMCs be cut to 1% from 10%. Ethanol manufacturers in Maharahstra, in a serious bid to supply ethanol for five per cent blending with petrol, have decided to reserve half their alcohol stock exclusively for this.

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A peg of Scotch whisky can reduce carbon emission too as scientists in Scotland have developed a biofuel from the by-products of whisky which can be used to power cars. Edinburgh Napier University has filed a patent for the biofuel which has been created in two years by the university’s Biofuel Research Centre. The university now plans to create a "spin-out" company to take the fuel to the m

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Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 18, 2010, 0:49 IST Ethanol manufacturers and sugar mills yesterday welcomed the Union cabinet’s approval for five per cent blending of petrol with ethanol and said they were prepared to meet the oil marketing companies’ (OMCs’) requirement of 1,044.5 million litres (of ethanol) between September 1 and August 31 next year. The government has said OMCs would procure

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The government today gave its formal approval to the introduction of five per cent ethanol-blending in petrol, at a price of Rs27 per litre for ethanol.

The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) cleared the proposal for implementation of the ethanol programme in all states except Jammu and Kashmir, Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep and northeastern states.

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Sujay Mehdudia

NEW DELHI: After months of deliberations, the Union Cabinet on Monday decided to fix an interim price of Rs.27 for a litre of sugarcane-extracted ethanol for blending with petrol.

However, the final price will be set on the recommendations of a committee of experts.

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KENNETH CHANG

BUTTER IS not the fuel of the future, but it is possible to churn perfectly good diesel fuel out of it.

“It was something we wanted to show could be done,” said Michael J. Haas, a research biochemist at the United States Department of Agriculture.

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Praveen Kumar Singh

New Delhi: Indian Railways has planned to set up four bio-diesel plants to reduce its carbon footprint and take forward its experiment with non-conventional form of energy. It is already planting saplings of jatropha, one of the sources of bio-diesel, on pilot basis in partnership with Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).

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Sanjay Jog / Mumbai August 2, 2010, 0:32 IST Oil marketing companies (OMCs) will float tenders for ethanol procurement at Rs 27 per litre for a mandatory five per cent blending with petrol, once the Centre issues a notification in this regard.

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