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Wanida Norasethasopon, Mahanakorn University of Technology
Figure 6 Comparison of ethanol consumption of gasohol 95 (E10) and ethanol
production volume from malasses
At present using ethanol in Thailand was a critical
situation because the production volume was over demand
in the market and the whole volume of ethanol could not be
used in the gasohol production process. All of these effected
by using volume of gasohol that it was still a small use
volume because some of Thai people who had a car still used
gasoline. Beside that ethanol admixture volume into gasoline
was still very low proportion. At present use ethanol only
10% mixing with gasoline 90% to be gasohol called gasohol
E10. Figure 6 shows the excess supply of ethanol in the
market and there still would be exceeding volume if gasohol
E10 was used continuously.
Since January 2008, Department of Alternative Energy
Development and Efficiency (DEDE), Ministry of Energy had
cooperated with department of mechanical engineering, King
Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand to
study and research the feasibility of use gasoline mixing with
ethanol to be fuel for automobile in proportion of ethanol
20% up (E20). This study is for being a beginning data to
prepare the completion for development and design of both
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