Petrobras prepares for construction of 1300 km ethanol pipeline
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Over at Ethablog, Henrique Oliveira announces that Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras is preparing to begin construction on its single largest project since it developed a gas pipeline between Bolivia and Brazil, in 1992: the construction of an ethanol pipeline (earlier post). The line will carry ethanol produced in the municipality of Senador Canedo, in Goias state, to the Paulinia refinery, in Sao Paulo, and, from there, to the port of Sao Sebastiao.
The project is expected to be concluded in two years, and will use 180,000 tons of carbon steel tubes, laid out over approximately 1300 kilometres (800 miles). 10,000 men will work on the project, which will also include compression and leakage measurement stations. The cost of the project, estimated at R$ 500 million (~US$ 235 million) will be picked up by Transpetro, a Petrobras subsidiary. The line will serve exclusively ethanol plants producing for international markets, transporting 4 billion liters of ethanol at full capacity.
On its website, Transpetro speaks at great technical length about the project, apparently contradicting many a biofuel naysayer in the U.S. who claims that ethanol cannot be transported by pipelines because it would pick up other particles and because it contains water. Oliveira leaves the discussion of the finer details of the science of carrying ethanol over long distances to engineering aficionados, who, if they so wish, may read Transpetro’s complete document [*.pdf / portuguese]. Article continues at Ethablog [entry ends here].
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Over at Ethablog, Henrique Oliveira announces that Brazil's state-owned oil company Petrobras is preparing to begin construction on its single largest project since it developed a gas pipeline between Bolivia and Brazil, in 1992: the construction of an ethanol pipeline (earlier post). The line will carry ethanol produced in the municipality of Senador Canedo, in Goias state, to the Paulinia refinery, in Sao Paulo, and, from there, to the port of Sao Sebastiao.
The project is expected to be concluded in two years, and will use 180,000 tons of carbon steel tubes, laid out over approximately 1300 kilometres (800 miles). 10,000 men will work on the project, which will also include compression and leakage measurement stations. The cost of the project, estimated at R$ 500 million (~US$ 235 million) will be picked up by Transpetro, a Petrobras subsidiary. The line will serve exclusively ethanol plants producing for international markets, transporting 4 billion liters of ethanol at full capacity.
On its website, Transpetro speaks at great technical length about the project, apparently contradicting many a biofuel naysayer in the U.S. who claims that ethanol cannot be transported by pipelines because it would pick up other particles and because it contains water. Oliveira leaves the discussion of the finer details of the science of carrying ethanol over long distances to engineering aficionados, who, if they so wish, may read Transpetro’s complete document [*.pdf / portuguese]. Article continues at Ethablog [entry ends here].
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