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Aimplas develops a common technical solution for the storage of bioethanol

28/04/2011

on April 28, 2011

The Technological Institute of plastics (Aimplas) and the Spanish Association of plastics industrial (Anaip) have been developing a viable and validated common technical solution for the storage of fuel bioethanol through deposits made from plastic materials.

This project, called Biocontainer, is part of the programme of support to innovation of small and medium-sized enterprises (Innoempresa), co-financed by the Ministry of industry and ERDF funds for projects of supraregional character.

The importance of this study is that Spain is the largest producer of bioethanol in the European Union and the third in consumption, behind Sweden and Germany. Indeed, Spanish cars already hold a small amount of 4-5 per cent bioethanol in the fuel mixture.

Through this project will guarantee optimum conditions storage both from the point of view of safety and quality of the product to contain and compliance with all requirements of both chemical and mechanical resistance. The final beneficiaries of the project are the companies manufacturers and repairing of reservoirs for the storage of bioethanol.

The Biocontainer project is based on the need in the market definition and validation of a container for the storage of fuel bioethanol, currently there is no any rules that reflect the characteristics and requirements of the fuel storage tanks should be, although there is a regulation for the manufacture and repair of tanks for storage of other types of conventional, such as petrol and diesel fuels.