L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering (LTHE), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), has signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) to build Ethanol plants based on the fully indigenous technology developed by ICT for producing Second Generation Ethanol. This technology developed by ICT is capable of processing a variety of feedstocks and offers one of the lowest project life cycle cost.
Today, India is producing about 3% bio-ethanol blending with Ethanol derived from molasses, which is called first Generation (1G) Ethanol. There is a huge impetus from the Government of India to set up second Generation (2G) Ethanol plants in order to achieve the ambitious target of 20% blending of bio-fuels. 2G Ethanol is defined as that derived from agricultural wastes that do not impact human and animal food chains, and result in more than 60% reduction in fuel carbon emissions compared to equivalent petro-fuel use.
LTHE and ICT will collaborate to provide complete solutions in setting up 2G Ethanol plants in terms of process license, technology knowhow, basic engineering, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) or Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management (EPCM).