Sentences with phrase «as an ethanol feedstock»

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Unlike other solid - to - liquid - fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon - based feedstock.

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

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.

A minimal first step would be to ensure that all fossil fuel inputs to biofuels are carbon - taxed, including natural gas used as feedstock for ammonia - based fertilizers of corn grown for ethanol.

As of mid-2007, growth in investment in ethanol and biodiesel was losing momentum as feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywherAs of mid-2007, growth in investment in ethanol and biodiesel was losing momentum as feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywheras feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywheras soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywhere.

The use of ethanol produced from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise, particularly as new feedstocks are developed.

Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.

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 United States produces mainly biodiesel and ethanol fuel, which uses corn as the main feedstock.

Called «marc,» grape waste could serve as an ideal feedstock for the production of ethanol, according to PhD candidate Kendall Corbin.

Sugarcane scores well when grown on degraded and abandoned croplands due to its high efficiency as a feedstock for ethanol, but again, as in all cases, its carbon payback time surges when its cultivation replaces tropical forest or savanna.

Today 6.5 % of the world's grain is being used as feedstock for global ethanol production representing only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.

(Sec. 1514) Directs the EPA Administrator to: (1) establish an Advanced Biofuel Technologies Program to demonstrate advanced technologies for the production of alternative transportation fuels; (2) give priority to projects that enhance the geographical diversity of alternative fuels production and utilize feedstocks that represent 10 % or less of domestic ethanol or biodiesel fuel production during the previous fiscal year; and (3) fund demonstration projects to develop conversion technologies for producing cellulosic biomass ethanol, and for coproducing value - added bioproducts (such as fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides) resulting from biodiesel fuel production.

So, more attention and resources are going into the producing of ethanol and other biofuel types from second - generation feedstocks, sometimes known as non-food crops.

Conventional ethanol production is energy - intensive, expensive, and time - consuming as the barley malt or other material being brewed needs to be heated up as a mash in feedstock pre-treatment.

Cellulosic ethanol companies convert agricultural or forestry residues into ethanol, while portable generators use similar feedstock, such as wood chips, to make electricity.

That opening is giving other potential second - generation feedstocks, such as kudzu and cattails, an opportunity to prove their ethanol mettle.

Recently we wrote about research into using kudzu as a feedstock for ethanol, as well as one businessman who is trying to

Recently we wrote about research into using kudzu as a feedstock for ethanol, as well as one businessman who is trying to commercialize «kudzunol».

Instead of burning that carbon monoxide off as carbon dioxide, the carbon is instead captured via fermentation to alcohol, producing an ethanol feedstock.