Sentences with phrase «tharaldson ethanol plant»

There are ethanol plants where the source of funding was the local community: A few thousand families all put in, say, $ 10,000 each.

«In the mid-80s, some of them mortgaged their family farms to buy bankrupt ethanol plants.

Most ethanol plants are owned by small businesspeople, not giant corporations.

It also has refinery operations and retail stations in Canada and Colorado, wind power projects and an ethanol plant in Canada, and an energy - trading operation.

The endless fields of corn and soybeans blur into the expanses of the American Middle West, fly - over country, where ethanol plants and windmill farms have sprouted in recent years but nothing much makes the national news.

By signing a Performance Agreement with Alfa Laval, a Brazilian sugar and ethanol plant eliminated unplanned downtime and saved around 100,000 Euros in nine months.

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the Kogi State Government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a fuel - ethanol plant that...

After handing me goggles and a hard hat, Foust and engineer Dan Schell usher me into the lab's pilot ethanol plant.

In 1979, when ethanol was called gasohol, Lunz saw an ad in a newspaper for an on - farm ethanol plant.

This is a fluidized bed reactor, an energy - generation technology that has been used for decades to power paper mills and waste - treatment plants but that had never before been installed in an ethanol plant.

Cellulose - loving fungi can cut biofuel costs by enabling existing corn ethanol plants to process cheaper, woody feedstocks such as corn stover

They are all suppliers to Project Liberty, the first large - scale commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the Corn Belt, set to open today.

«When we started our company 27 years ago with a bankrupt corn ethanol plant, there was the same question about that industry as there is about cellulosic: Would it ever be viable?»

A joint venture of corn ethanol giant POET and Dutch biotechnology corporation, DSM, it is the first of three big new cellulosic ethanol plants opening in the U.S. heartland in the coming weeks.

In the 30 - year case, nearly all types of corn ethanol plants flunked the test.

Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Yet RangeFuels» fancy new ethanol plant, which will eventually pump out 100 million gallons of fuel a year, will feed mostly on wood chips.

A projected 2,000 - ton - per - day cellulosic ethanol plant could potentially use up to 5,000 tons of enzyme per year, and half of that enzyme cocktail could be from this enzyme family.

Last February, the Department of Energy selected sixcompanies to receive funding towards building ethanol plants — scheduled to beoperational within the next three years — that will utilize new technology forprocessing corn stover as well as other types of agricultural waste.

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

Current reported CI for ethanol plants.

The second agreement called for the three participating companies to study the potential viability of an ethanol plant in Germany.

Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Valero Energy Corporation is the world's largest independent petroleum refiner and marketer, supplying fuel and products with 16 refineries and 10 ethanol plants stretching from the U.S. West and Gulf coasts to Canada, the United Kingdom and the Caribbean.

Tina Engels of Chicago paints her soft - edged «Still Life with Shell» (2011) in a careful arrangement with dried flowers; Amy MacLennan from St. Louis paints broad gestures in «Lilac Study Gold» (2010) and makes her «Ethanol Plant, Peoria» dissolve into the landscape.

Not drying distillers grains is feasible only if large beef feedlots or dairies are located near the ethanol plants....

The first of these factors is largely under the control of ethanol plant owners.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

I've been on the road, learning about damaging and sustainable agricultural methods (and a big corn - to - ethanol plant) in Iowa, meeting with hundreds of science - oriented high school students in Houston to discuss energy and innovation and speaking about how new opportunities for globally sharing and shaping insights and information can be a prime route toward sustaining human progress on a finite planet (and on a tight budget).

Corn - to - ethanol plants have been the most rapidly growing source of feed gas for CO2 recovery.»

Here in Michigan, you're actually a step ahead of the game with your first - ever commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, which will lead the way by turning wood into clean - burning fuel.

With competition for plant waste among cellulosic ethanol plants, landscapers, and a range of other users, added to the fact that millions of cell phones are made each year, it could quickly become yet another burden on the earth to be using so much compostable, good - for - the - soil plant matter for cell phone frames.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

The Standard Alcohol Company built a cellulosic ethanol plant in Georgetown, South Carolina to process waste wood from a lumber mill (PDA 1910).

As a policy paper last year from the Association of Oil Pipelines and the American Petroleum Institute points out, the economics are also iffy, partly because ethanol plants are relatively small and dispersed.

After discussing the «carbon monoxide, methanol, toluene, and volatile organic compounds» emitted by ethanol plants, the article addressed the issue of pollution caused by corn farming:

Current estimates, which I documented in the afore - mentioned article, put the cost of a biomass gasification plant at about 7 times the per barrel cost of a conventional oil refinery or grain ethanol plant, and double the costs of a coal - to - liquids plant.

Jackson and Chapple made extensive forays across mid-American landscapes to talk with farmers, fishers, ethanol plant operators, and the proprietor of a backcountry bayou lodge.

Ethanol plants produce byproducts that can be used as feed for animals, in turn, factory farms can sell animal manure as fuel for ethanol plants.

The ethanol plant we focused on would definitely still have that problem, since any decrease in the market price for ethanol could make it optimal to idle the plant.

For the last wave of new ethanol plants, the Energy Return On Input (EROI) for corn ethanol is 1.5 to 1.8 and higher.

That is equal to the amount of fuel from one large ethanol plant and tiny fraction of U.S. oil demand of about 20 million barrels per day.

The methane is destroyed in a thermal oxidizer in the ethanol plant or in a backup flare at the landfill.

The community has also benefited from construction jobs related to the project, creation of two full time jobs at L.P. Gill, and lower and more predictable energy costs at the local ethanol plant.

The project consists of 42 wells, a blower system, gas cleaning and pressurizing system and a 1.25 - mile pipeline to the ethanol plant.

Mike Ewall is the founder and director of Energy Justice Network, a national support network for grassroots community groups fighting dirty energy and waste industry facilities such as coal power plants, ethanol plants, natural gas facilities, landfills and incinerators of every sort.

The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year.

The L.P. Gill Landfill Gas Recovery Project captures methane gas from the L.P. Gill Landfill and pipes it to a nearby ethanol plant.

Many of the corn ethanol plants can be easily modified to produce cellulosic ethanol from the waste of farm crops.

We're starting an ethanol plant deathwatch, so please send us any others that you've heard about.

Panda Ethanol is reportedly canceling a 100 - million - gallon ethanol plant it had in the works in Wallace, Neb., while RAE is said to have shuttered plans for a plant near Gothenburg, Neb., earlier this month.