Ethanol FUEL

Brief historical facts as regards to Ethanol Fuel is described herein --- Brazil is the world's second largest producer of ethanol fuel. Brazil and the United States have led the industrial production of ethanol fuel for several years, together accounting for 85 percent of the world's production in 2017. Brazil alone produced 26.72 billion liters of Ethanol which was 26.1 percent of the world's total ethanol consumption as fuel in 2017.

Between 2006 and 2008, Brazil stood as a global leader in the bio fuel industry and obvious policy model in the bio fuel industry for other countries. In that era Brazil was considered to have the world's first "sustainable" biofuel economy because it’s sugarcane ethanol "was the most successful alternative fuel to date." However, some experts believed that the successful Brazilian ethanol model is sustainable only in Brazil due to its advanced agro-industrial technology and its enormous amount of arable land available, whereas other experts believed it is a solution to fuel needs only for some countries in the tropical zone of Latin America, the Caribbean countries, African countries, and India. However in the recent years, later-generation biofuels have sprung up which don't use agricultural crops that are explicitly grown for fuel production.

Brazil's 40-year-old ethanol fuel program is based on the world’s most efficient agricultural technology for sugarcane cultivation coupled with use of modern plants, and machineries which uses cheap sugar cane as feedstock and further the modern technology allows them to use the residual cane waste (bagasse) to produce heat and power thus this optimization results in production of fuel at very competitive price and also achieving in a high energy balance (output energy/input energy) in the range of 8.3 (for average conditions) to 10.2 (for best practice production). In 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency designated Brazilian sugarcane ethanol as an advanced biofuel because of its 61% reduction in total life cycle greenhouse gas emissions, including direct and indirect land use change emissions.