HCM to Invest in Green Energy
June 22, 2007| |
Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam is set to develop its domestic bioenergy industry. Phan Minh Tan, director of the city’s Department of Science and Technology, says that it has targeted its bioenergy sources to ensure a supply equivalent to 10 percent of total demand. The Department will also set up three working groups to take care of technology, policy making, and market surveys.
The University of Technology’s Petrochemical and Refinery Centre in Ho Chi Minh City is currently studying ways to process biodiesel from vegetable oil waste, and is completing the final stage of the technology. Tan added that the Department is also working with the Pham Chi Company to manufacture biopetrol using sorghum.
For more news from Vietnam, email Hien Le of Biotech Vietnam at hientttm@yahoo.com.
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