Biofeul In Pakistan Can Help Deal With Energy CrisisBiofeul In Pakistan Can Help Deal With Energy Crisis

Biofeul In Pakistan Can Help Deal With Energy Crisis

Biofeul In Pakistan Can Help Deal With Energy Crisis: Since long, Pakistan’s economy has experienced incremental shortages in fuel, so the deficit is overcome by imports. Yet, as a long-term solution, it is important to increase national-level power generation through alternative energy sources.

As an agricultural economy, there are huge prospects of producing power from ethanol, following the Brazilian model. Biofuel is an ecological-friendly fuel and an assessment done by the Ministry of Agriculture demonstrates the capability of producing biofuel, most importantly by the sugarcane industry.

Here, again the potential energy generation from biofuel could not be completely recognised in light of the fact that sugarcane yield remains below the global average.

According to some estimates, the production of sugarcane was 43.6 million tons in 2000-01, which rose to 49.4 million tons in 2009-10. Around 80-90% of the sugarcane production goes to the sugar industry. The rest is converted into Gur (or jaggery). Cane crushing produces sugar and molasses as side products. Molasses are converted into biofuel. Molasses-to-bioethanol transformation process is directed in refineries.

In order to meet the clean energy demand, Pakistan has designed its first biogas plant in light of the imported Chinese design. Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy Technologies adopted biogas technology and installed 21 family-measure units.

However, due to multiple reasons like absence of craftsmanship, gas pressure factors, spillage and hurdles in the way of good execution of the gas delivered through fermentation procedure, the council suspended the programme.

Biofeul In Pakistan Can Help Deal With Energy Crisis
Biofeul In Pakistan Can Help Deal With Energy Crisis

On the other side, India introduced the programme with few modifications, which was suitable to local conditions, and successfully managed 1,200 family-size biogas plants. A project of installing 2,500 biogas plants was launched in 2007 in India and the subsidy component was Rs17,000 per plant.

Returning to the point, regardless of the financial constraints in the energy sector of Pakistan, 2,000 biogas plants have been installed successfully in previous years and work on 500 more plants is under way.

Initially, the biogas units were built for cooking and home-use purposes. Biogas production can be enhanced with the help of animal dung which can run 3.825 million small biogas units for feeding 50 million people.

Substituting gasoline with bioethanol could result in considerable foreign exchange savings, importantly under the government’s initiative to subsidise biofuel production through exemption from customs duty. As a consequence, the biodiesel refinery has been built in Karachi, which is capable of processing 18,000 tons of biofuels per year.

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