据安迅思7月21日消息称，印度政府官员周三表示，印度巴拉特石油公司(BPCL)计划斥资100亿卢比(1.34亿美元)在泰伦加纳邦东南部建立一家乙醇工厂。
泰伦加纳邦政府官员表示，拟议中的工厂将拥有50万升/天的产能，将使用谷物作为原料。
由于州政府尚未分配公司所需的土地，BPCL 尚未最终确定乙醇厂的位置。
他说:“BPCL决定在泰伦加纳建立这家工厂，因为该邦目前缺乏乙醇，需要一个大型乙醇工厂来满足政府的燃料混合目标。”
一旦投入运营，BPCL工厂将帮助泰伦加纳实现印度到2025年在汽车燃料中混合20%乙醇的目标。
据BPCL网站称，该公司目前正在奥里萨邦、马哈拉施特拉邦和中邦三个邦建设三个日产10万升的第二代(2G)乙醇工厂。
该公司表示，2G工厂将使用稻秆和玉米秸秆作为生产乙醇的原料。
BPCL将为该项目提供技术，马哈拉施特拉邦工厂的乙醇生产预计将在2023年左右开始。
朱佳妮 摘译自 安迅思
原文如下：
India’s BPCL plans ethanol plant in Telangana state
India’s Bharat Petroleum Corp Ltd (BPCL) plans to set up an ethanol plant at a cost of Indian Rupees (Rs) 10bn ($134m) in south eastern Telangana state, a state government official said align="justify"> The proposed plant will have a capacity of 500,000 litres/day and will use grain as feedstock, the Telangana state government official said.
BPCL has not finalized the location of the ethanol plant as the state government is yet to allocate the land required for the company.
“BPCL has decided to set up this plant in Telangana as the state is currently ethanol deficient and would need a large ethanol plant to meet the government’s blending targets for fuel,” he said.
once operational, the BPCL plant would help Telangana achieve India’s target of blending 20% ethanol in auto fuel by 2025.
The company is currently in the process of setting up three second generation (2G) ethanol plants with a capacity of 100 kilolitres/day in the three states of Odisha, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh as per the BPCL website.
The 2G plants will use paddy straw and maize stalks as feedstock to produce ethanol, the company said.
BPCL will provide the technology for the project and ethanol production at the Maharashtra plant is expected to begin around 2023.
