Vietnam established a biofuel development project

The Ministry of Industry is developing a Biofuel Development Project to 2015, a vision to 2020, with the goal of producing E10 gasoline and bio-oil to replace a part of today's traditional fuel.

Illustration: Azlan - Director of a Malaysian company distilling biofuel at the laboratory on April 5, 2006.(Photo: VNN)

According to the project, in the period of 2006-2010, Vietnam will access technology to produce biofuels from biomass, build a pilot model of bio-fuel distribution in some provinces and cities; planning areas for planting high-yield raw materials; training technical personnel.

In the period of 2011-2015, will strongly develop the production and use of biofuels to replace a part of traditional fuels, expand production scale and distribution network for transportation and public production sectors. other businesses; diversifying material sources.

By 2020, biofuel production technology in Vietnam will reach the advanced level in the world, with output of about 5 billion liters of E10 petrol and 500 million liters of bio-diesel B10 / year.

According to experts, gasoline E10 is alcohol mixed gasoline with a maximum alcohol content of 10%, fully meeting all normal activities of cars and motorcycles. Biodiesel oil is always mixed into DO oil, with a common rate of 5-30%, to reduce environmental pollution.