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‘Tequila’ powered Biofuels more Efficient than Corn or Sugar

Associate Professor Daniel Tan in Ayr, Queensland, in front of agave plants.
Associate Professor Daniel Tan in Ayr, Queensland, in front of agave plants.

Ethanol from agave could be used for transport fuel and hand sanitizer. The agave plant used to make tequila could be established in semi-arid Australia as an environmentally friendly solution to Australia’s transport fuel shortage, a team of researchers at the University of Sydney, University of Exeter and University of Adelaide has found.

The efficient, low-water process could also help produce ethanol for hand sanitiser, which is in high demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In an article published this week in the Journal of Cleaner Production, University of Sydney agronomist Associate Professor Daniel Tan with international and Australian colleagues have analysed the potential to produce bioethanol (...

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