{"id":126957,"date":"2021-08-18T20:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=126957"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:55:26","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T13:25:26","slug":"second-generation-bioethanol-it-is-time-to-launch-it-headlong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/second-generation-bioethanol-it-is-time-to-launch-it-headlong\/","title":{"rendered":"Second-generation bioethanol: It is time to launch it headlong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/energy\/second-generation-bioethanol-it-is-time-to-launch-it-headlong-78507\">Down to Earth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance<\/strong>: Going from waste to wealth for producing clean energy<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>: Second generation bioethanol can help us reduce our oil import dependency. A brief look at its advantages.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Context<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>On the eve of 75th Independence Day, Indian PM announced a new goal of transforming India into an \u2018energy-independent\u2019 nation by 2047. However, the earlier set target of reducing crude oil import dependency by 10% by 2022 is still far from being achieved.<\/p>\n<p>The recent announcement of the country\u2019s target of 20% ethanol blending in petrol (E20) by 2025 can play a key role in reducing the crude oil imports and bolstering India\u2019s energy independence. India currently blends approximately 8.5% ethanol with petrol.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>About bioethanol<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span class=\"topic-highlight\">Bioethanol<\/span> is an alternative to fossil transportation fuel. It is categorized as first (1G), second (2G) and third-generation (3G), based on the source of raw material used for bioethanol production<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First generation<\/strong> (1G) bioethanol uses corn seeds and sugarcane as raw material. There is not enough food for everyone; so the use of 1G is a major concern. However, some countries have enough raw materials to manufacture 1G.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second generation<\/strong> (2G) bioethanol uses inedible farm waste left over after harvest. Corn cobs, rice husks, wheat straw and sugarcane bagasse can all be transformed into cellulose and fermented into ethanol<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third generation<\/strong> (3G) bioethanol uses algae grown in wastewater, sewage or salt water\u00a0 to produce bioethanol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India has been promoting 2G bioethanol to achieve its E20 target.<\/p>\n<h5><b>Benefits of 2G bioethanol<\/b><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Unlike 1G bioethanol, 2G <strong>does not use food resources<\/strong> having no impact on food security<\/li>\n<li>3G bioethanol has issues with respect to <strong>economic cost.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It also <strong>reduces agricultural waste burning issue,<\/strong> thus helps in reduction of air pollution<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Terms to know<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ethanol-blending-of-petrol-and-its-challenges\/\">Ethanol Blended Petrol (EBP) Programme<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Down to Earth Relevance: Going from waste to wealth for producing clean energy Synopsis: Second generation bioethanol can help us reduce our oil import dependency. A brief look at its advantages. Context On the eve of 75th Independence Day, Indian PM announced a new goal of transforming India into an \u2018energy-independent\u2019 nation by 2047.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/second-generation-bioethanol-it-is-time-to-launch-it-headlong\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Second-generation bioethanol: It is time to launch it headlong<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[9154,768,216,9153,3222],"class_list":["post-126957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-bioethanol","tag-energy","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-reactive-pipeline-technology","tag-renewable-energy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1701780950},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}