Vietnam imported technology to turn straw into gasoline gasoline

Agricultural residues of straw, grass, corn . will be converted into fertilizer, sugar and aircraft gasoline.

On the afternoon of May 31, the Science and Technology Construction Investment Project Management Board, the Ministry of Science and Technology organized the signing of the transfer of Carbolosic agricultural waste treatment technology . Technology developed by PhDs at Central Florida University (USA). Quang Ninh is the first locality to receive this technology transfer in July.

Agricultural by-products will be the input materials of waste treatment technology.

The inventor Walsh Joseph John, co-author of the technology, said the technology uses agricultural byproducts as inputs to produce sugar, fertilizer, ethanol. Ethanol is the most widely produced fuel but has many drawbacks: low energy content, hydrophilicity and starch or sugar origin. So Carbolosic proposed combining patented cellulose with sugar technology (CTS) with standard fermentation and chemical processing to capture a biofuel for aviation.

Technological process consists of eight steps: Reduce size; cellulose reaction into sugar (CTS); floating; centrifugal; ferment; distillation; Water separation and chemical treatment.

With the design of separating each module, Mr. Walsh Joseph John said that it is possible to move the system to areas where agricultural harvests are available for on-site treatment, limiting costs. To process a kilogram of garbage costs only 0.5 cents (less than 200 VND).

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai Thu, Deputy Director of the Management Board of Science and Technology Specialized Investment Project Management, the Ministry of Science and Technology is suitable to solve the problem of environmental pollution. Instead of people having to burn and bury agricultural by-products every harvest, the technology will help make use of waste to be processed into useful products.

Statistics of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, each year the country discharges 34 million tons of agricultural by-products. 70% of them can be resources for production and life if recycled. For a long time, agricultural waste is rarely used but is often burned in the field causing environmental pollution.