Farms Produce Biofuels from Tropical Energy Crops
March 2, 2007| |
Imagine a small-scale farmer using coffee pulp to produce fuel. This is a near possibility, says the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), which is conducting a pilot-scale project in several areas of Colombia that mainly aims to develop low-cost innovative systems to produce bioethanol, biodiesel, and pure vegetable oil.
The project team leader, CIAT researcher John Loke, believes that it is possible to produce biofuels by tapping numerous energy crops of the tropics, such as physic nut and castor bean. Small-scale producers will be involved such that they produce raw alcohol as input to refineries that produce high-quality fuel alcohol. The Federation of Plantain Producers of Colombia (Fedeplátano), which takes part in this project, has already initiated the pre-market production of bioethanol based on coffee wastes in the country's coffee-growing region.
Read the news article at http://www.ciat.cgiar.org/newsroom/release_23.htm.
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