Sunday, December 24, 2006

American auto will be fed by oranges

The American company Xethanol Corporation in the collaboration with company Renewable Spirits constructs in Florida the pilot plant, which will manufacture automobile fuel-, ethanol, from the rind of citrus fruits.


Processing the rind of oranges, new plant will produce 190 thousand liters of ethanol for the following season of the collection of citrus fruits. But subsequently the power of production will be increased 10 times.
Xethanol develops a number of the technologies of the production of ethanol from the not completely usual raw material.


In contrast the widespread production of biotopliva from the grain, the company was concentrated on processing of the by-products of stock raising and woodworking industry, and also solid household trash.
Now to this list was added the rind of oranges, obviously, which is remained in the abundance from the industrial production of juice, reports MEMBRANA.

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