When we take a look at the ethyl alcohol or ethanol fuel (C2H5OH) for India Ethanol fuel is not new to us, Yes it's true. For decades ethanol blended with petrol was about 2 to 5 percent, Let see what is ethanol fuel is and how it's going to have an impact with the petrol blend.
What is Ethyl alcohol or Ethanol Fuel:
Ethanol fuel is one of the biofuels
containing ethyl alcohol produced by the fermentation process and this kind of
chemical is also found in alcoholic beverages. Most of the ethanol fuel is
prepared by biomass feedstock or prepared by vegetable waste, mainly in India
major ethanol fuel is prepared from the sugarcane feedstock and remains from
the food grains such as maize and surplus rice stocks.
Advantages of Ethanol Fuel:
1. Reduce Global warming
The significance of ethanol fuel is
less carbon when compared with traditional fossil fuel, the feedstock needs
carbon to grow and release the same amount of carbon while it's burned, in this
way, ethanol fuel makes carbon neutral. But in the traditional fossil fuel
carbon neutralization takes a long time when compared to ethanol carbon
emission, because the formation of the fossil fuel takes a long time and the
usage of the fossil fuel is also high.
2. Renewable Resource
Ethanol fuel is prepared purely from
biomass, biomass feedstock like corn, sugarcane, etc.. These kinds of feedstock
are renewable sources that need a photosynthesis process to grow. As long as we
have sun energy to do photosynthesis we can produce endless biofuels like
ethanol.
3. Development in the country's Economy
India has more agricultural land,
and by using this ability we can produce the maximum amount of raw materials to
prepare ethanol fuel. This leads to building new plants and new job
opportunities and the export of ethanol fuels to other countries will also
increase.
4. Ethanol can be produced from various organic
matter.
Production of Ethanol fuel is not
dependent on specific byproducts like corn and sugarcane, it can also be
produced from various amounts of organic byproducts. One of the best examples
of an organic byproduct is cellulose ethanol production, which means we can
also produce ethanol fuel from non-food products like algae, grass, wood, etc.
So, creating ethanol fuel is independent of various organic matters, it doesn’t
require specific byproducts.
5. Availability
The availability of ethanol fuel is in all climatic conditions because the main feedstock for the ethanol fuel is sugarcane and crops. More than the requirement of the whole country needs, we have more cropland to grow the feedstock organic matter for the ethanol fuel.
Disadvantage of Ethanol Fuel:
1.
Required Large cropland
If the demand for ethanol fuel is
created more cropland is needed to grow the organic matter for the biomass
feedstock and based on the demand for ethanol fuel the cropland has to expand.
In this case, the maintenance of the huge cropland becomes difficult and needs
more manpower to maintain the land.
2. Ethanol is difficult to vaporize
Ethanol is an alcohol, and its attack is a good
coolant and antifreeze agent for the engine. But in cold conditions, ethanol is
quite difficult to vaporize when compared to petrol, and external things have
to be added, like a grid heater to warm up the engine for ethanol vaporization.
To avoid this a minimal amount of petrol will be added to solve this problem.
3. It is a corrosion fuel
Ethanol has the ability to absorb
water, which makes it difficult to transfer through pipelines to long-distance
because of the corrosion due to water absorption. It also tends to damage the
vehicle's engine parts which are sitting for too long.
4. Vehicle Maintenance will increase
As we have seen the characteristics
of the ethanol fuel from the above point, in vehicles the engine parts have to
be checked regularly due to indirect damage caused by the ethanol fuel. If the
maintenance is not done well, it will lead to a huge disaster for the vehicle.
5. Poor
mileage
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