Research Article
Potential Cellulosic Ethanol Production from Organic Residues of Agro-Based Industries in Nepal
Table 3
Estimated bioethanol production from different sources.
| | Source of residues | Dry biomass produced (ton/year) |
Ethanol content (L/kg) in dry biomass [12] | Estimated bioethanol that can be produced (KL) | | Industry | Cultivated land |
| | Indu Shankar Sugar Mill Pvt., Ltd. | — | 65,029.965 | 0.28 | 18,208.390 | | — | Sugarcane field from whole Nepal | 141,211.815 | 0.28 | 39,539.308 | | Everest Paper Mill Pvt., Ltd. | — | 86.668 | 0.28 | 24.2670 | | Surya Nepal Pvt., Ltd. | — | NA | | NA | | — | Tobacco field residue from whole Nepal | 18.826 | 0.31* | 5.836 | | Himalayan Brewery Pvt., Ltd. | — | 155.0596 | 0.41 | 63.5744 | |
Bioethanol that could be produced from the dry bagasse produced from whole Nepal in the year 2011/12 (includes that from Indu Shankar Sugar Mill) | 494,892.263 | 0.28 | 138,569.833 | | Total | 636,264.974 | | 178,202.8184 |
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NA: not available; *as stated in the calculation of ethanol from dry biomass in Section 3.
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