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Traditionally ethanol was produced from food-based crops such as corn, sugar cane, rice, sugar beet, wheat and tapioca which involve harvesting and milling, separation and replantation before fermentation of the recovery sugar or starch into ethanol.
Biomass either from food-based crop waste or non food-based crop source such as grass can become alternative source and many new development and technology for commercialization is under progress which is based on cellulose.
Malaysia under Pioneer Bio Industries Corporation Sdn. Bhd. is giving mandate to promote and develop using nypa sap from nypa frutican tree, a type of palm as a new resource, which economically, practically and morally appropriate for producing ethanol.
Bioethanol has been in commercial-scale production as a fuel for many decade, and the production technology either from starch or sugar-based have undergone significant development and refinement.
Ethanol from nypa sap is similar with ethanol from other resources which basically the sap similar as sugar cane juice.
The content of sugar is high and directly fermentation to produce ethanol.
Two type of ethanol will plan to produce:
- Wet ethanol (Hydrous ethanol, 95 %)
- Dry ethanol (Anhydrous ethanol, 99.9 %)
Both type of ethanol either as fuel additive, as blend components petrol or diesel, as alternative liquid fuel or as industrial chemical will start production in 2009.
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