There are 10 cassava ethanol plants in Thailand under operation
with a total capacity of 1.9 MLPD. One plant is going to cease cassava
line and use only molasses line. Capacity of the plants range
between 130,000e400,000 L/day with average capacity of
175,000 L/day. Most of the plants are using the same Simultaneous
Saccharification and Fermentation (SSF) technology (Siamphakdee,
2011). There are two main kinds of cassava ethanol plants, one is
cassava chip feedstock ethanol plant and the other, fresh cassava
root feedstock ethanol plant. Some plants can use both feedstocks,
but cassava chip is still the main feedstock. Cassava chip feedstock
type just needs one more process of chipping and sundrying from
fresh cassava root type.