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Asian Development Bank
100 Climate Actions from Cities in Asia and the Pacific
The northern city of Tieling is scaling up corn-based ethanol production to provide Chinese consumers with biofuel to reduce transport emissions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
The northern city of Tieling is scaling up corn-based ethanol production to provide Chinese consumers with biofuel to reduce transport emissions in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
A new production facility in the city of Tieling, eight hours north-west of Beijing, is helping to meet the PRC’s targets for biofuel consumption. Via a series of complex reactions starting with corn, the facility produces 300,000 tons of ethanol fuel, 276,300 tons of high-protein livestock feed, and 20,000 tons of corn oil every year.
300K
TONS OF ANNUAL BIO-ETHANOL FUEL PRODUCTION
TONS OF ANNUAL BIO-ETHANOL FUEL PRODUCTION
The ethanol produced can be mixed with regular gasoline for a cleaner-burning transportation fuel, which the PRC government is prioritizing as a target to improve urban air quality. The country has said it would require gasoline supplies nationwide to be blended with 10% ethanol by 2020 (also known as E10 fuel, common elsewhere in the EU and US), which would require production of around 15 million tons of the biofuel annually.
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Corn fuel can be mixed with gasoline to produce a cleaner transport fuel (photo by ADB).
The Challenge
The corn-based ethanol production is helping to address the province’s backlog of corn, the hoarding of aged grain, and farmers’ logistics and storage expenditure.
Co-Benefits
Economic The increased demand for corn will improve the outlook for local farmers around Tieling.
Health Utilizing E10 fuel can reduce polluting particulate emissions from tailpipes by around 20%, helping to improve air quality.