Banana biofuels
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Bernama. Three students win Malaysia's National Competition in Innovative Science and Engineering with their project "Bio-ethanol from banana as an alternative bio-fuel".
The innovative students will represent Malaysia at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) with their project. Intel ISEF is the world's largest pre-college science competition, which will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, in May next year.
The students are Mohammad Ashraaf Raiez Mohammad Ridzuan, 16, Aminuddin Abdul Raheem, 16, and Muhammad Na'im As-siddiq Wan Hasamudin,17, from Sekolah Sains Sultan Hj Ahmad Shah, Pekan, Pahang. They had toiled on the intricacies of this innovation for over five months, Intel Malaysia said in a statement. Deputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim gave away the prizes to the winners in a ceremony held at Sekolah Menengah Tuanku Ampuan Durah, Seremban, recently.
"These competitions allow young Malaysians to pursue their interest in science, mathematics and engineering while encouraging them to practise inquisitive thinking and problem-solving skills. "For the past years we have seen home-grown talents doing us proud in the international fair and we wish this year's team the very best in ISEF 2007," KC Yoon, managing director, Assembly and Test, Intel Malaysia said.
Bananas and plantains are an obvious feedstock for biofuels, both liquid (ethanol) and gaseous (biogas), because they are easy to manage plantation crops, they have high sugar (bananas) or starch contents (in the case of plantains), they ferment very easily and they have a high per hectare yield. Yields for bananas can go up to 50 tonnes per hectare, for plantains up to 40 tonnes. (The picture above shows the sweeter banana and under it the longer, darker, starch-rich plantain).
There is great potential for the production of non-commercial varieties of the fruit, most notably the wide diversity of plantains [more in-depth at the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain], which are cultivated all over the tropics and especially in Africa, but which do not comply with the monotony of the taste and shape of the straight 'Eurobanana'. More about banana biofuels soon [entry ends here].
ethanol :: biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: energy :: sustainability :: banana :: plantain ::
Bernama. Three students win Malaysia's National Competition in Innovative Science and Engineering with their project "Bio-ethanol from banana as an alternative bio-fuel".
The innovative students will represent Malaysia at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) with their project. Intel ISEF is the world's largest pre-college science competition, which will be held in Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States, in May next year.
The students are Mohammad Ashraaf Raiez Mohammad Ridzuan, 16, Aminuddin Abdul Raheem, 16, and Muhammad Na'im As-siddiq Wan Hasamudin,17, from Sekolah Sains Sultan Hj Ahmad Shah, Pekan, Pahang. They had toiled on the intricacies of this innovation for over five months, Intel Malaysia said in a statement. Deputy Education Minister Datuk Hon Choon Kim gave away the prizes to the winners in a ceremony held at Sekolah Menengah Tuanku Ampuan Durah, Seremban, recently.
"These competitions allow young Malaysians to pursue their interest in science, mathematics and engineering while encouraging them to practise inquisitive thinking and problem-solving skills. "For the past years we have seen home-grown talents doing us proud in the international fair and we wish this year's team the very best in ISEF 2007," KC Yoon, managing director, Assembly and Test, Intel Malaysia said.
Bananas and plantains are an obvious feedstock for biofuels, both liquid (ethanol) and gaseous (biogas), because they are easy to manage plantation crops, they have high sugar (bananas) or starch contents (in the case of plantains), they ferment very easily and they have a high per hectare yield. Yields for bananas can go up to 50 tonnes per hectare, for plantains up to 40 tonnes. (The picture above shows the sweeter banana and under it the longer, darker, starch-rich plantain).
There is great potential for the production of non-commercial varieties of the fruit, most notably the wide diversity of plantains [more in-depth at the International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain], which are cultivated all over the tropics and especially in Africa, but which do not comply with the monotony of the taste and shape of the straight 'Eurobanana'. More about banana biofuels soon [entry ends here].
ethanol :: biomass :: bioenergy :: biofuels :: energy :: sustainability :: banana :: plantain ::
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