Sugarcane ethanol fuel programme (Proálcool)
Etanol de caña como combustible masivo (Proálcool)
- Date
- 1975-1979 · confidence high
- Place
- Aerospace Technical Centre, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil
- Credited to
- Urbano Ernesto Stumpf and the Government of Brazil
- People
- 👤 Urbano Ernesto Stumpf1916–1998
- Field
- Matter & energy
What it is
A state programme that blended sugarcane ethanol into petrol and, in 1979, launched cars running on pure hydrous ethanol, with engines adapted at the CTA. It was the world's first large-scale biofuel.
What it led to
- reduced dependence on oil in Brazil
- the flex-fuel engine (2003)
- biofuels on a global scale