| Grade | : Ethanol FUEL – Anhydrous grade 99.5% min. |
| Raw material | : Cassava (tapioca), Molasses. |
| Quantity | : Able to supply 500-3,000MT per month |
| Packing | : in either plastic drums (200Liter/drum, 80drums/20ft container) or in iso tank (24,000Liter/tank) or in bulk vessel shipment (1,000 CBM/MT min). |
Today Ethanol is blended with Petrol (Gasoline) to make a truly sustainable transport fuel. Hence, it is called Fuel Ethanol or “Gasohol” or “Bio-Fuel” or a Renewable Energy source. Besides, Ethanolalso considered as a Green Energy because the combustion of Ethanol results in the clean emission: Heat, Steam and Carbon Dioxide. Such reason plus with producing from such raw material as agricultural feedstock: Sugar Cane, Corn, Cassava … or even from the waste of crops as wood chips, grasses, straw… for the next generation of Cellulosic Ethanol, it is then named as “Bio-ethanol” as well.
In Vietnam, Anhydrous Ethanol grade 99.5% min. fermented from cassava is used as Fuel Ethanol.
The difference in specification of Fuel Ethanol (or Bio-Ethanol) between Vietnam and Philippines is also mentioned in below table specification.
| No | Properties | Unit | Philippines
Standard (PNS QS 007:2005) |
Vietnam Standard
(TCVN 7716:2007) |
Anhydrous Ethanol
Specification |
| 1 | Aspect | Clear/bright/free
of suspended |
Clear/bright/free
of suspended |
Clear/bright/free
of suspended |
|
| 2 | pHe | 6.5 – 9.0 | 6.5 – 9.0 | 6.5 – 9.0 | |
| 3 | Copper content | mg/kg | 0.1 max | 0.1 max | 0.1 max |
| 4 | Density @20oC | kg/L | 0.7915 | 0.7915 | |
| 5 | Ethanol @20oC | %vol | 99.3 min | 92.1 min (denatured) | 99.5 – 99.8 |
| 6 | Denaturant | %vol | 5 max (Gasoline) | ||
| 7 | Chloride | ppm | 40 max | 40 max | 40 max |
| 8 | Methanol | %vol | 0.5 max | 0.5 max | 0.5 max |
| 9 | Total Acids | %w | 0.007 max | 0.007 max | 0.007 max |
| 10 | Water content | %vol | 0.5 max | 1.0 max | 0.5 max |
| 11 | Sulphur | mg/kg | 30 max | ||
| 12 | Sulfat | mg/kg | 4 max |
Specification of Industrial Ethanol – Anhydrous grade 99.5% min. also mentioned in the above table.
(Other products: Fusel Oil, drinking ethanol-edible, denatured ethanol, head and tail ethanol, industrial ethanol)
