Ethanol as a raw material - Reducing CO2 emissions / Biodegradable products

The world is increasingly demanding technological innovations aimed at reducing the emission of greenhouse gases into our planet's atmosphere and also for products that are biodegradable.Everything indicates that these demands are irreversible.The automobile industry has already set targets to stop producing combustion engines using fossil fuels.In Brazil, the same engines that run on gasoline are the ones that use hydrated ethanol.As a result, in the relatively near future, Brazil will have more production capacity than consumption, both for the anhydrous ethanol that is added to gasoline and for the hydrous ethanol used 100% as fuel.Using ethanol as a raw material is one way of solving this problem and at the same time demonstrating to the world Brazil's potential for sustainable industrial processes.Between the 1960s and the early 1990s, Brazil successfully used ethanol as a raw material, replacing naphtha to produce, among other things, basic products for the petrochemical chain, such as 1.3 butadiene and ethylene, which is still produced via ethanol.In addition, there is evidence that the use of hybrid ethanol / naphtha technologies can add quality to products, and also evidence that ethanol has the molecular structure to produce alternative biodegradable products.In this article, the author will show the feasibility of using ethanol as a raw material to help reduce CO 2 emissions.