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The other day the director general of Indian Sugar Mills Association Abinash Verma made an impassioned plea for the central government to announce the final price of ethanol to be procured by oil marketing companies (OMCs) for blending with petrol. Till such time the final price is announced, OMCs are to procure ethanol from indigenous sources at a uniform ex-factory ad-hoc price of Rs 27 a litre for its doping with petrol. According to Verma, sugar mills have finalised “contracts with oil marketing companies for supply of about 600 million…

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WASHINGTON: American scientists have devised a new way to convert bio-fuel made from biomass into feedstock chemicals, an inventions which they say could reduce reliance of industries on fossil fuels to make industrial chemicals. Researchers at the Massachusetts University at Amherst reported in journal Science that they have developed a new processor to produce key chemical intermediates from pyrolytic bio-oils —— the cheapest liquid fuel derived from biomass. The new process, they said, could “reduce or eliminate industry’s reliance on fossil fuels to make industrial chemicals worth an estimated $400…

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Government is encouraging rice producing states in the country to generate electricity from its husk to fulfil the unmet need for electricity in their villages. New and renewable energy minister Farooq Abdullah said today that his ministry has been promoting rice husk based biomass gasifier system for providing electricity in villages. “So far, about 150 villages/hamlets of Bihar have been getting electricity from rice husk. In addition, one such system is under installation at Md Devipura village of District Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh,” Abdullah said in a written reply to a…

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