Japanese refiner builds ETBE facility
Japan’s Nippon Oil has built the nation's first facility for making ethanol-based petrol additive ethyl tertiary butyl ether (ETBE).
The petroleum industry plans to market ETBE-blend petrol, which burns more cleanly than regular petrol, nationwide from 2010 and have biofuel blends accounting for up to 20% of the country's annual petrol demand of roughly 1 million barrels per day.
The industry aims to blend 840,000 kilolitres a year of ETBE, containing 360,000 kl of bioethanol.
Japanese oil companies started selling ETBE-blended petrol at some petrol stations in the Tokyo area in 2007.
The unit at Nippon Oil's Negishi refinery in Yokohama, which is capable of producing 100,000 kilolitres of ETBE a year, will begin commercial operations from the end of November after trial runs.
The facility will process mostly domestically produced bioethanol bought from Hokkaido in northern Japan.
The petroleum industry plans to market ETBE-blend petrol, which burns more cleanly than regular petrol, nationwide from 2010 and have biofuel blends accounting for up to 20% of the country's annual petrol demand of roughly 1 million barrels per day.
The industry aims to blend 840,000 kilolitres a year of ETBE, containing 360,000 kl of bioethanol.
Japanese oil companies started selling ETBE-blended petrol at some petrol stations in the Tokyo area in 2007.
The unit at Nippon Oil's Negishi refinery in Yokohama, which is capable of producing 100,000 kilolitres of ETBE a year, will begin commercial operations from the end of November after trial runs.
The facility will process mostly domestically produced bioethanol bought from Hokkaido in northern Japan.
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