subject: Time Needs To Reduce The Cost Of Fuel Ethanol - Ethanol, Cellulosic Ethanol - The Chemical Industry [print this page] Recently held multinational forum on China, Novozymes China, Ko Ming, president, announced that it has developed a new enzyme preparation, the cost of bio-fuels can be reduced to two U.S. dollars per gallon. This is the second in 2009, COFCO, China's Sinopec and Novozymes signed a tripartite development of cellulosic ethanol technology Cooperation Significant progress since the agreement obtained.
Learned that China had planned to 2010, non-grain fuel ethanol usage increase to 200 million tons by 2020, expand fuel ethanol consumption to 10 million tons. At present, China's fuel ethanol production capacity of about 1.7 million tons, of which about 1.5 million tons in grain as raw material, but this development and food security due to conflict, so slow.
"Non-food" embarrassed the way
To address the development of fuel ethanol "and compete for food" problem, the end of 2006, the National Development and Reform Commission issued an emergency notice, bio-fuel ethanol projects in China should adhere to the non-grain raw materials mainly focus on supporting cassava, sweet sorghum and fiber non-food raw materials and resources industry. However, due to the climate, environment and other issues big difference, our non-food raw materials and resources are limited.
2007, as part of bio-fuel ethanol to the "non-food" a turning point in the development of national food authorities approved the joint venture with Sinopec in Guangxi annual output of 200,000 tons of cassava fuel ethanol plant, and supporting the corresponding base of cassava planting material . However, this measure of local cassava starch processing industry as raw materials caused some impact.
COFCO Institute Wu Guoqing said that in 2009 China's total of about 1.7 million tons of fuel ethanol, there are still 80% of the raw material comes from corn, and corn ethanol as fuel, domestic fuel ethanol business is through government subsidies maintain the meager profit. Although China only Guangdong, Guangxi and other peripheral regions for cassava cultivation, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Shandong and other northern areas suitable for planting sweet sorghum, but the amount of resources are limited. Anhui BBCA Group
therefore actively fled to Southeast Asia to purchase land to grow cassava to supply raw materials production. XIAO Ming, Senior Engineer Ministry of Agriculture, Planning and Design Institute, said: "implementation of the 'going out' strategy is indeed to solve the plight of ethanol production of raw materials one way, but to bear greater risks than domestic, in addition to the risk of the natural environment, it also involved in local government policies, labor costs, transportation costs and other issues. "
In addition, because ethanol prices fluctuate with international oil prices, so some experts have estimated that only when Crude Prices will rise to 80-90 dollars per barrel, bio-fuel ethanol to usher in spring. "Our Oil Price is administrative control, and therefore the one hand, bio-fuel ethanol from the country by the international markets, on the other hand by the raw material price fluctuations, both sides frustrated and the situation more difficult. "Wu Guoqing said.
Reduce costs take a little longer
It is understood that, as the world's largest ethanol exporter, Brazil in 2009 produced 19 million tons of fuel ethanol, is coveted by China's vehicle fuel market. XIAO Ming said, in recent years, Brazil has sent delegations to China require the export of fuel ethanol in China, but not recognized by government departments, mainly due to imported ethanol would be just the formation of domestic production, management, marketing, industrial policy and subsidies and other fiscal tremendous impact.
However, China's fuel ethanol industry in terms of its own, but somewhat out of touch and market development goals. Up to now, domestic fuel ethanol projects 5 Tian Guan addition, the food already in the form of holding shares and control of which four, to become the industry leader.
But even the food, now is the cost per ton of fuel alcohol 5000-6000 diverse, still need to rely on state subsidies. I know that the National Development and Reform Commission on the fuel ethanol project to subsidize the system is flexible, usually in the 1000-2000 yuan.
