Converting Palm Fiber into Ethanol

A technology developed by LIPI, the Indonesian Institute of Sciences, can transform one ton of palm trunks into 151 liters of ethanol with a concentration of 99.5 percent.

A chemical process via this machine produces ethanol," said researcher Agus Haryono from the Chemical Research Center of LIPI last Monday in Serpong, Banten Province.

LIPIs Technical Science Division deputy Syahrul Aiman said that it was high time Indonesia expanded the use of re

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