Govt to push isobutanol blending with diesel after ethanol trials fail

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Diesel in India will soon be blended with isobutanol instead of ethanol after initial trials with ethanol did not deliver the expected results, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday. Speaking at the India Sugar and Bio-Energy Conference, the minister said that the government is committed to expanding biofuel use as part of its clean energy and farm income strategy.

Gadkari acknowledged that ethanol–diesel blending trials had failed. “We tried ethanol with diesel but the results were not satisfactory. Now isobutanol will be blended with diesel,” he said. Trials with isobutanol are in progress and according to him, blending levels will be increased in the coming months.

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