Renewable Energy: Nigeria Working Towards Replacing Diesel, Kerosine With Methanol
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu has revealed that his ministry is perfecting plans to use methanol to phase out diesel in Nigeria.
Onu made the disclosure on Tuesday. He was speaking during the budget defence with the House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology.
He noted that the research has been ongoing since 2012; even as he added that methanol will also replace Kerosene for the use of cooking. Nevertheless, it remains unclear how the Ministry intends to actualize this.
“We are working on the area of renewable energy. We want to be using our smaller rivers to generate electricity. The Ministry is determined if given resources, we have the capacity. We are introducing methanol.
“You can use it to cook instead of Kerosene, because kerosene leaves soot. It will also help to use it to phase out diesel. One of our agencies started on methanol since 2012.”
Furthermore, Onu disclosed that the research will help to end gas flaring.
“The chemical industry is the least developed in the country. Methanol has a lot of applications, even the racing cars are powered by methanol. In climate change, methanol has many sources. This gas we are flaring contains 89% of methanol,” Onu averred.
Nevertheless, Onu revealed that the ministry has not received a Naira from the over N4.3billion allocated for capital projects in the 2019 budget.
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