Relationships between Main Accidental Variables at Ethanol Fuel Industry

ROMINA D. CALVO OLIVARES; SELVA S. RIVERA; PEDRO A. BAZIUK; JORGE E. NÚÑEZ MC LEOD

Lecture Notes in Engineering and Computer Science

Newswood

Año: 2015

2078-0958

As in the case of biodiesel, the use of fuel ethanol is not new; its history can be traced back to the beginnings of the nineteen century. The first prototypes of internal combustion engines developed by Samuel Morey and Nicholas Otto in the 1826 and 1876 respectively, could work using ethanol as fuel. In 1896, Henry Ford built a car that could run using pure ethanol. Ten years later, his company developed the first series-produced car that had a flexible- fuel engine able to work using ethanol, gasoil or a mixture of both. The use of this biofuel spread to Europe and United States until the World War II when manufacturing and using of fossil-based diesel became more profitable due to its lower cost, availability and an easier process to obtain it [1], [2]. In Brazil, the first experience using ethanol from sugar cane as fuel took place in 1925, but it was in 1931 when bioethanol started to be produced and used as a fuel-vehicle.