"Supplying the mixed fuel to households is the first stage," Baek, project manager of Korea Gas Corp, said. " dimethyl ether(DME) could eventually replace diesel in trucks and buses once it gains wider recognition as an alternative fuel."
The CEO of Swedish biofuels company Chemrec has called for promotion of dimethyl ether increased efforts to promote the benefits of DME throughout North America.
Similar comments are far more than these. All of these reflect that DME does worth being focused on not only in China but in all of the world. The shortage of oil resources and the aggravation of environmental pollution have triggered a craze for the world-wide search and development of new energies. As a supplement of traditional energies, dimethyl ether fuel has bright prospects in the energy sector. This is because dimethyl ether has good fuel properties. It is cleaner and offers good performance and this clean, odorless and noncarcinogenic gas can be produced from a wide variety of feedstocks through a number of processes like being extracted from coal, natural gas and biomass.
However, the new alternative does not seem to develop as smoothly as it should be. This is mainly because there lacks only a higher awareness of its important role. Take China for example, DME companies are struggling on the cost line and there is no policy supporting on it. The mixture events happened thus causing DME much worse. They really need the country to issue a mixture standard to help them out of the dilemma. According to the committee of the Third Methanol-DME/LPG Industry Chain Summit (http://news.chemnet.com/list/zt/industry/erjiamiyingwen/index.html), DME could find their way out by entering the gas community and the State and the DME enterprises should work together to get rid of the present difficulties.
The CEO of Swedish biofuels company Chemrec has called for promotion of dimethyl ether increased efforts to promote the benefits of DME throughout North America.
Similar comments are far more than these. All of these reflect that DME does worth being focused on not only in China but in all of the world. The shortage of oil resources and the aggravation of environmental pollution have triggered a craze for the world-wide search and development of new energies. As a supplement of traditional energies, dimethyl ether fuel has bright prospects in the energy sector. This is because dimethyl ether has good fuel properties. It is cleaner and offers good performance and this clean, odorless and noncarcinogenic gas can be produced from a wide variety of feedstocks through a number of processes like being extracted from coal, natural gas and biomass.
However, the new alternative does not seem to develop as smoothly as it should be. This is mainly because there lacks only a higher awareness of its important role. Take China for example, DME companies are struggling on the cost line and there is no policy supporting on it. The mixture events happened thus causing DME much worse. They really need the country to issue a mixture standard to help them out of the dilemma. According to the committee of the Third Methanol-DME/LPG Industry Chain Summit (http://news.chemnet.com/list/zt/industry/erjiamiyingwen/index.html), DME could find their way out by entering the gas community and the State and the DME enterprises should work together to get rid of the present difficulties.
