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	View Edit Domain: BioEnergy Title: * Body: Brazil government’s decision to gradually increase the amount of biodiesel in diesel fuel to 20 percent in big cities by 2015 was widely welcomed by country’s biodiesel producers.<br /> <br /> Brazilian Biodiesel Union said their producers' plants would be able to provide the new biofuel as of 2010, which would mean an increase of 2,500 million liters.<br /> <br /> The union is an association of producers and researchers of biofuels.<br /> <br /> The increase in the 20-percent mixture in cities that suffer from pollution would help the government to reduce diesel sulfur levels, Union said.<br /> <br /> Biofuel sector was able to produce 5,000 million liters per year, but half of the installed capacity was idle for lack of demand, union added.<br /> <br /> The union expected that, besides big cities, 10 percent of biodiesel would be added to diesel across Brazil from 2015. To implement these proposals would require changes in the sector's regulatory framework, he added.<br /> <br /> The Brazilian government announced in October that as of January 2010, the diesel fuel vehicles in the country would be required to run on a 5-percent biodiesel blend.<br /> <br /> If so, Brazil will surpass the United States and France to become the second largest biodiesel producer after Germany.<br /> <br /> Brazil started its large-scale biodiesel production in 2003, after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva started his first presidential term.<br /> <br /> This has enabled an expansion of the Brazilian biodiesel market, with 43 plants in operation today and production capacity currently at 3.6 million liters per year.<br /> <br /> In 2009, Brazil's total biodiesel production was expected to reach 1,800 million liters, according to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, which has predicted that the South American country would produce between 2,400 and 2,600 million liters of biofuel by 2010.<br /> Captcha: Please Enter Code : * Time Zone: * Select the time zone Vocabularies Newsletter: Domain: Show summary in full view Input format Filtered HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. Full HTML Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. Lines and paragraphs break automatically. news_filter Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically. More information about formatting options			Related Articles Novozymes explores seaweed-to-ethanol in India John Lindt: Biofuel maker to double employees POET Ramps Up Production of Corn Oil for Biodiesel Nucleic Acids Research Journal Publishes Sapphire Energy Pee... Alcohol industry wants say on ethanol pricing Piedmont Biofuels Founder Recognized with National Award Novozymes Enzymes to Make Cheap Cane Ethanol in Brazil House committee members, industry slam effort to delay E15 US Biodiesel Industry Smashes Previous Production Record for... Blue Sun to offer biodiesel at Knoxville, Tenn., terminal Top BioEnergy Articles

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