Ethanol as biofuel

Since 1975, Brazil has supported a governmental program to design a new car engine technology using (95%) hydrated ethanol as biofuel. 

Over the last decade, mounting pressure on crude oil prices together with a desire to move to more sustainable processes pushed many companies to use the fermentation technology even for the synthesis of bulk chemicals. The large-scale productions of lactic acid for polymers and of ethanol as biofuel are two recent examples of this trend. 

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