Venezuela Pioneers Alternative Fuel from Cassava Root
Submitted by admin on July 31, 2009 – 12:49 pmNo Comment
A team of engineers has found a way to convert waste products created when producing Casabes, or flat breads from the cassava root, into ethanol, butanol, isobutanol and proponal energy compounds that can produce fuel. … “This product, popularly known as ‘Yare,’ is really nothing more than a milky product with a high content of poisonous cyanide, and is made up of around 800 to 1,200 parts per million of cyanide. That means that 2 cc’s of Yare could kill an animal weighing up to 500 kilograms.”
Yaretanol production is expected to generate some 1,500 jobs, and produce 30 tons of fuel per day. That equates to roughly 1% of the ethanol currently being used in Venezuela. READ MORE
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