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To: CommanderCricket who wrote (99823)	4/25/2008 1:39:11 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206316

imported more diesel fuel than usual as demand from the agriculture and transport sector rose, while one big refinery was halted for maintenance. The biodiesel will take care of that. Brazil, which met its oil needs for the first time in 2006, exports gasoline, but is short on diesel. While it exports some heavy oil, it has to import lighter, more expensive foreign crudes to mix with heavier local petroleum for processing at its refineries built decades ago. Tupy will take care of that

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (99823)	4/25/2008 1:41:12 PM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206316

Brazil Moves up Deadline for Biodiesel Mandates USAgNet - 04/24/2008 The Brazilian government has moved up the deadline for the mandatory addition of biofuels to diesel fuel to the year 2010. In January, biodiesel was being blended at a two-percent level and on July 1 that blend raises to three percent. The ultimate mandate is set at five percent and was originally scheduled to kick in by 2013. Soybean oil is expected to provide much of the feedstock. It is estimated that the industry in Brazil has the annual capacity to produce the 2.8 billion liters needed to meet the five-percent mandate. Let ‘em eat biodiesel, Brazil says sugarcane is fuel New Europe, Belgium - Apr 21, 2008 “Don’t come tell me that (food) is expensive because of biodiesel,” he said. “It is expensive because the world was not ready to see millions of Chinese eat ...

To: CommanderCricket who wrote (99823)	4/30/2008 10:23:59 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 206316

Fiat should launch an ethanol-powered engine in Brazil by 2010 for use in trucks and agricultural machinery, the company's regional manager said on Tuesday. Fiat to launch ethanol truck engine in Brazil Wed Apr 30, 2008 12:36am IST Email \| Print \| Share\| Single Page[-] Text [+] By Roberto Samora RIBEIRAO PRETO, Brazil, April 29 (Reuters) - Fiat Powertrain Technologies (FIA.MI: Quote, Profile, Research) should launch an ethanol-powered engine in Brazil by 2010 for use in trucks and agricultural machinery, the company's regional manager said on Tuesday. Aimed at the cane industry in the world's No. 1 grower, around half of whose production is used to make ethanol, the motor will cut farming and transport costs as producers can run it on cost-price fuel using the ethanol they make. <<ELMAT: Need to extirpate the oil from the production of ethanol. Then move into the mass market as Diesel replacement.>> Around 10 million euros are being invested in development of the motor, which will be a conventional engine adapted for the renewable fuel rather than one designed from scratch. "With ethanol, safety is required. We want a totally secure project," said Franco Ciranni, Fiat Powertrain Technologies manager for the countries of South America's Mercosul economic area. A small amount of diesel would be needed to combust the ethanol, but the two fuels would not mix until injected into the combustion chamber from separate tanks, which developers say avoids dangers inherent in mixing the fuels. "Use of additives (in ethanol) makes running (an engine) dangerous, subject to explosions," said FPT's product development engineer Joao Irineu Medeiros. "The diesel will be just enough for ignition and the ethanol will complete the combustion," he said. Cloves Mendes, FPT's head of new technologies said ethanol would cost industry users a third of the diesel price, though larger volumes were needed. "The factory will use ethanol because it won't pay tax on it and performance with ethanol and diesel will be the same," said Mendes. The engine will be trialed during the next cane harvest in the factory vehicles and machinery of FPT's partners. The trucks would have chassis from Iveco, a Fiat Group company, and Bosch injection systems.