China: Baoshan Tobacco Company Strives to Develop Environment-Friendly Technology

Source from:  TobaccoChina Online 11/08/2010

Baoshan City Tobacco Company in southwest China's tobacco-producing Yunnan Province is cooperating with Baoshan City Jianeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. in developing environment-friendly technology for using renewable energy to cure leaf tobacco, in response to the government's call for cutting the emission of carbon dioxide and developing a low-carbon economy in China. So far, Baoshan City Tobacco Company and Baoshan City Jianeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd. have jointly launched a number of projects to develop technologies for converting tobacco stems, cornstalks, sawdust, Eupatorium adenophorum Spreng and other plants into environment-friendly and economic biofuels to cure leaf tobacco in substitution for coal. In doing so, they have succeeded in producing 3,000 tons of biofuels in substitution for 6,000 tons of coal. The use of the 3,000 tons of biofuels to cure leaf tobacco will mean reducing the emission of 12.3 tons of smoke dust, 60 tons of SO2, 23.94 tons of nitrogen oxides and 375 tons of fixed carbon. When the annual biofuel production capacity reaches the designed target of 20,000 tons in substitution for 40,000 tons of coal, Baoshan City will be able to reduce the emission of 3,143 tons of smoke dust, SO2, nitrogen oxides, fixed carbon, etc in leaf tobacco curing each year. Enditem