PetroVietnam to Export 85% of Fuel Ethanol Production over 2011-2013
by Michelle Ho (Platts) State-owned refiner PetroVietnam plans to export around 85% of its fuel-grade ethanol production upon its startup until 2013, when it expects the Vietnamese government to implement a mandate that requires 5% of all gasoline sold in the country to be ethanol-blended, a company source from PetroVietnam Central Biofuels said Tuesday.
…According to the source, commissioning works at the cassava-based plant would take around one-and-a-half months, and the company expects to startup commercially in November.
…The 100 million liter/year ethanol plant at Dung Quat requires around 250,000 mt/year of cassava as feedstock, or 2,249 kg per one liter of ethanol.
Specifications of its fuel ethanol is similar to the American product, with purity content at 99.8%, methanol content at 0.5% maximum and water content at 0.3% maximum.
PetroVietnam receives around 30% of its cassava requirements from its own plantations in Vietnam, and will import the remaining from Laos, the source said. PetroVietnam also sells some of its cassava chips to China. READ MORE
