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It would begin with the super and common types due to the lack of the capacity to process alcohol.Â

The 5% bioethanol mix in the naphtha won’t reach to all the varieties in January of 2010 as it was foreseen, but rather it will begin with the super and ultra types due to the lack of dehydrating plants to transform the alcohol. As confirmed to La Nacion by sugar companies involved in the business and the Argentinean Sugar Center that pointed out that May 15 will conquer the term to present the projects for the bioethanol quota before the Secretary of Energy. Fernando Nebbia, president of the Argentinean Sugar Center, said: “For January there will be an important quantity of dehydrated alcohol to begin the operative with two types of naphtha: common and ultra. Â

Starting from the second semester, when other plants enter in regime, the super naphtha will be included.”Â

“We are speaking of this and negotiating with the Secretary of Energy and the oil companies. Everything is clear and spoken”, he affirmed. From an important sugar industry, they also pointed out the segmentation by naphtha type as the most immediate alternative. LA NACION consulted the Energy portfolio, but had no answer at all.Â

The plant that will cause a pothole in the production and won’t be operative the first days of 2010, will be the one projected by Atanor, Refinor and other sugar factories of Tucumán that will have a annual production capacity superior to 130.000 cubic meters. Jorge Domínguez, industrial director of Atanor, explained: “The construction of this type of projects demands a year and half and didn’t still begin because there are some numbers yet to be defined. It will be ready to start towards the end of 2010, not at the beginning of January.”Â

“The sugar industry is the natural bioethanol supplier and Tucuman is the biggest producer. Then, I don’t believe that the 270.000 m3 or 270 million liters that are considered to achieve the 5% mix will be met. The Secretary of Energy can defer the implementation of the law, it can define imports or, even, delimit the application”, he said.. In the same line, sources of Ledesma highlighted: “An interesting volume will be achieved with the foreseen plants, but without that of Atanor the 5 percent that was foreseen won’t be met.”Â

Projects and capacitiesÂ

The dehydrating plants of the big players that will be ready to satisfy to the oil companies will be those of Ledesma, Tabacal and The Florida, as they pointed out both of the first ones.Â
From Tabacal, they specified that the company would make off with 10 percent of the quota. In that line, they detailed that “the company began before with the investment and the construction. The plant will have capacity to process 45 million liters per year, and our quota would be of 27 millions”. on the other hand, in Ledesma, that is “working strongly to reach January with the plant”, they explained that it will produce in 2010 around 55 million liters of alcohol to destine to the internal hydrating market and to the new market of fuel alcohol. “The dehydrator will have the same capacity and the idea is to buy alcohols to other sugar factories”, they added.Â

Mercedes García BarteltÂ

Source: La Nación

This article is dated Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 10:47 am under , Argentine Biofuels Chamber, biokerosene, Daniel-Scioli, Glencore, Jorge Hilbert, Lula, Patagonia, protocolo-de-kioto.
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