Kingdom of Cambodia is located at the center of ASEAN Countries with a land area of 181,035 square kilometers, and its population is about 14 million. The country’s economy is mainly reliant on agriculture. In recent years, the development of technology and many initiative policies has further boosted the prospect of agricultural industry. Nowadays, the reserves of fossil fuels are declining which is leading to ever-increasing prices and high-demanding of alcohol. Ethanol is widely used in chemical industry, light industry, agricultural chemical industry, cosmetic industry, electronic industry, military industry, solutions and reagent industry.
The massive demand for new sources of oil has driven by ever-increasing demands for energy globally. Plant oil is highly valued as Bio fuel ”Diesel” and transformed into Bio Diesel in most industrialized. With Cambodia’s rapid economic growth and the increasingly acute energetic, the advantages of bio-fuel, as a high-quality alternative to fossil fuel, have become more apparent as it is renewable, clean and safe.
Bio-Fuel production especially Bio-Ethanol from cassava and Bio-Diesel from Jatropha that the possible sources of new type of additional energy in Cambodia.
Bio-Fuel:
1. Bio-Diesel
2. Bio-Ethanol
3. Approaches to Biofuel Development
