Cassava for fuel alcohol

Abstract

Oil supplies to Papua New Guinea are becoming increasingly more expensive and unreliable. As the country has no major oil resources of its own at present, there is a need to find alternative sources of energy, particularly fuel energy. Ideally, such sources would be renewable
and also suitable for the widely variable population densities found here. One such source is ethyl alcohol made using carbohydrate (eg starch or sugar) from agricultural crops such as sugar cane, potato, sweet potato, sweet sorghum and cassava.