据安迅思6月30日消息称，印度国有的印度斯坦石油公司(HPCL)和印度天然气管理局(GAIL)计划建设第二代(2G)谷物精炼厂，以帮助印度到2025年提高乙醇产量。

　　HPCL将投资40亿卢比(合5400万美元)，在印度北部喜马偕尔邦的乌纳建设一座每天12.5万升的谷物乙醇工厂，工厂占地70英亩，由邦政府提供。

　　该公司表示，该厂的大米和玉米等粮食原料将来自喜马偕尔邦的4个地区以及邻近旁遮普邦的2个地区。

　　GAIL计划与私人合作伙伴合资建立一个更大的以谷物为基础的乙醇工厂，日产能50万升。

　　该公司一名高级官员表示：“我们正在为一家乙醇精炼厂寻找合作伙伴，以便我们也可以参与印度政府的乙醇混合项目，这是一个新的利润丰厚的领域，政府已经开设了这个项目。”

　　他补充称，拟建工厂生产的乙醇将出售给石油营销公司，用于与汽油混合。

　　该公司消息人士称，尽管该公司尚未敲定投资细节和工厂选址，但 GAIL 打算在乙醇缺乏的州建造精炼厂。

　　根据GAIL的评估，印度将需要生产超过120亿升(42亿吨)乙醇，以实现到2025年在燃料中混合20%乙醇的目标，并满足化学和其他行业的要求。

　　该国用于混合燃料的乙醇传统上是用甘蔗糖蜜和甘蔗汁生产的。

　　政府预计，到2025年，制糖业将生产70亿升乙醇，占所需总产量的58%，剩下的50亿升将由谷物和其他2G乙醇工厂生产。

　　政府预计在2020年12月至2021年11月期间，燃料乙醇混合率将达到近8.5%。

　　朱佳妮 摘译自 安迅思

　　原文如下：

　　India’s HPCL, GAIL to build 2G ethanol plants

　　State-owned Hindustan Petroleum Corp Ltd (HPCL) and Gas Authority of India Ltd (GAIL) are planning to build second generation (2G) grain-based refineries, to help boost India’s ethanol output by 2025.

　　HPCL will invest Indian rupee (Rs) 4bn ($54m) on a 125,000 litre/day grain-based ethanol plant at Una in the Himachal Pradesh state in northern India, with plant site of 70 acres to be provided by the state government.

　　Feedstock grains such as rice and maize for the plant would be sourced from four districts in Himachal Pradesh and two districts in neighbouring Punjab state, the company said.

　　GAIL is planning a bigger grain-based ethanol plant with a 500,000 litres/day capacity, in joint venture with private partners.

　　“We are seeking partners for an ethanol refinery, so that we can also be part of ethanol blending programme of the Government of India, which is now a new lucrative area, which has been opened by the government,” a senior company official said.

　　Ethanol produced at the proposed plant would be sold to oil marketing companies for blending with petrol, he added.

　　While the company is yet to finalise investment details and plant location, GAIL intends to build the refinery in an ethanol-deficient state, the company source said.

　　India will need to produce more than 12bn litres (4.2bn tonnes) of ethanol to achieve its target of blending 20% ethanol in fuel by 2025, and to meet the requirements of the chemical and other sectors, as per GAIL’s assessment.

　　Ethanol used for blending in fuel in the country is traditionally produced using sugarcane molasses and juice.

　　By 2025, the government expects the sugar industry to produce 7bn litres of ethanol or 58% of the total output required, with grain-based and other 2G ethanol plants expected to produce the remaining 5bn litres.

　　The government expects to achieve nearly an 8.5% ethanol blending rate for fuel from December 2020 to November 2021.