Brazil Ahead in Green Chemistry
Following last month´s article by Kevin Moran about green chemistry, oils and alcohol made from vegetables. Brazil is still ahead with these two technologies.
In Brazil alcohol as car fuel has been in place for the last 25 years. At one stage 95% of the cars ran on alcohol from sugar cane. The technology has changed and today 100% of the cars run on a fuel made with 75% of gasoline mixed with alcohol. This mix means less emissions of pollution.
In November 2004, the Brazilian government authorized a mix of palm oil (or soya bean oil) in diesel oil. This again means less pollution. In both cases alcohol and vegetable oils also show that other kinds of energy are available and the researchers (and government) need to understand that this new energy is 100% renewable making it environmentally friendly. In 2004, Phosyn in Brazil sold 67% of the volume to Soya crop.
Now Sugarcane is our target with early trials results looking very promising as shown on the right.
Author: Marcelo Santos, Brazil
Published: January 2005