ETHANOL FUEL BUS – BEST PROJECT (BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport)

ETHANOL FUEL BUS — BEST PROJECT (BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport)

Jose Roberto Moreira, Slvia Maria Stortini Gonzalez Velazquez, Sandra Maria Apolinario Santos,
Suani Teixeira Coelho, Brazilian Reference Center on Biomassa, Sao Paulo University, Sao Paulo, Brasil

The aim of this paper is to present the BEST project — BioEthanol for Sustainable Transport, developed by CENBIO — Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass in Brazil. It’s an European Union initiative and coordinated by the Stockholm mayor, that aims to promote the ethanol usage, replacing diesel, in the urban public transport in Brazil and worldwide. Apart from Sao Paulo, leading city in the Americas, another eight cities located in Europe and Asia take part in the project: Stockholm (Sweden), Madrid and Basque Country (Spain), Rotterdam (Holland), La Spezia (Italy), Somerset (England), Nanyang (China) and Dublin (Ireland). One of the Brazilian project’s goals is to evaluate ethanol usage as diesel fuel replacement in public transport buses by comparatively following the operational output of the experimental fleet (fuel consumption, performance and occurred failures), taking as reference an equivalent diesel bus. The utilized test vehicles will be evaluated and monitored to demonstrate ethanol energetic efficiency and after the results the BEST project and the European Union will set a blue print for public policies to incentive ethanol usage in the urban public transport. The results will allow identifying technical and economical barriers that will eventually overlap the viability process of this technology in the Brazilian public transport. This paper will put forward the technology developed by the Swedish Scania, available and technically improved, that adapted the diesel engine to operate with ethanol, agreements in place in the search for partners, the body and engine import procedures, as well as the imported additive that will be added to the ethanol and the one year period tests methodology that will start in December 2007. The time is very favorable to the Brazilian program, as it is an alternative to diminish the metropolitan region pollution where the technology will be demonstrated, reducing up to 90 % of particle material emissions and 62 % of nitrogen oxides launched in the atmosphere, apart from not emitting sulfur responsible for the acid rain. The vehicle will reduce in up to 80 % gases emissions responsible for global warming. The engine utilized in the tests is well advanced even for European pollution standards, as it respects severe specifications like EURO 5 and EEV (Enhanced Environmentally Friendly Vehicles), norms that will be compulsory in the European Union from 2009 onwards. This technology usage is a great achievement, as the Brazilian law accepts the EURO 3 emission standards. It is expected that this competitive advantage and the BEST project development in Sao Paulo will attract the attention of other places in Brazil for this technology. Another favorable point is the fact that diesel costs almost double the price of ethanol in Brazil that is the second biggest ethanol producer in the world (18 billions of tons in 2007 and expecting 38 billions of tons by 2012), apart from the upward trend in the petrol cost.

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Jose Roberto Moreira, Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass (Cenbio), Electrotechnics and Energy Institute, Sao Paulo University, 1289, Cidade Universitaria, Sao Paulo, CEP 05508-010, Brasil. Tel. (11) 3091-26-50, fax (11) 3091-26-53. E-mail
Silvia Maria Stortini Gonzalez Velazquez, Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass (Cenbio), Electrotechnics and Energy Institute, Sao Paulo University, 1289, Cidade Universitаria, Sao Paulo, CEP 05508-010, Brasil. Tel. (11) 2114-85-52, fax (11) 2114-85-53. E-mail
Suani T. Coelho, Brazilian Reference Center on Biomass (Cenbio), Electrotechnics and Energy Institute, Sao Paulo University, 1289, Cidade Universitаria, Sao Paulo, CEP 05508-010, Brasil. Tel. (11) 3091-26-52. E-mail

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