Sunday, 21/10/2018 09:16 (GMT+7)
The Dung Quat Bio Ethanol plant in central Quang Ngai province resumed operations on October 14th, after being halted three years ago for inefficiency.
In September 2009, construction of Dung Quat Bio Ethanol Plant kicked off with an investment capital of nearly VND1.85 trillion. It has a designed capacity of 100 million liters of ethanol a year and was put into commercial operation in January 2014.
Due to the price of ethanol in the market being VND2,000 per liter lower than the cost of production, the plant was forced to close from April 2015.
The Dung Quat Bio-fuel JSC has signed a cooperative deal with Tocontap to re-operate the Dung Quat Bio Ethanol plant.
Mr. Pham Van Vuong, Director of the Central Petroleum and Bio-fuel JSC (BSR-BF), said the repairing and maintaining of technological workshops were completed on October 5th.
BSR-BF has signed a contract with Tocontap company to produce ethanol products made from cassava. Under the contract, in 2018, BSR-BF will produce about 7,000 m3 of ethanol supplied to Tocontap and the remaining 35,000 m3 will be made in 2019.
The steam technology workshop uses coal
The main workshop of the plant receives cassava, which will be delivered to the grinding plant after that to make products within 72 hours.
The tank is in the plant’s main workshop. Within the first 12 months, Tocontap committed to consume all ethanol products distributed to the gasoline E5 blending unit to supply the domestic market.
As designed, the plant will produce 20,000 tons of liquid C02./.
BTA