Bio-Oil Production Plant Utilizing Caña Brava (Gynerium sagittatum) Project to Rise in the Peruvian Amazon Region

Gynerium sagittatum (locally known as “caña brava”, “samoa fiber” and “bitter cane”) is a grass plant that “grows wildly the Amazonian floodlands”. A project by Samoa Fiber Holdings company is underway to utilize caña brava for the production of bio-oil by “fast pyrolysis” (rapid high temperature burning of material in the absence of air). About 80% oil yield could be obtained from the biomass.

The company is said to be developing plantations in Eastern Peru; the harvest will be processed in the pyrolysis plant that will be situated adjacent to the plantations.