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DIBANET is a research project funded under the EU's Seventh Framework Programme. This project is being
co-ordinated by Carbolea at the University of Limerick and is a response to the Energy 2008 Call
- "Significant enhancement of the cooperation between key researchers & industries from the EU & Latin
America in the field of biofuels". DIBANET stands for the "Development of Integrated Biomass
Approaches NETwork" & the title of the Project is "The Production of Sustainable Diesel Miscible
Biofuels from the Residues & Wastes of Europe & Latin America". There are 13 partners in the
group, 6 from the EU & 7 from Latin America (LA). The total budget for the project is €3.7m.
DIBANET will develop technologies to help towards eliminating the need for fossil diesel imports in the EU & LA by advancing the art in the production of ethyl-levulinate from organic wastes and residues. Ethyl levulinate (EL) is a novel diesel miscible biofuel (DMB) produced by esterifying ethanol with levulinic acid. 
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