Sentences with phrase «corn ethanol yields»

Not exact matches

There are higher ethanol yield crops that can be grown in areas unsuitable for corn.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

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For example, a farmer in northern Iowa could plant an acre in corn that yields enough grain to produce roughly $ 1,000 worth of fuel - grade ethanol per year, or he could use that same acre to site a turbine producing $ 300,000 worth of electricity each year.

Projects must demonstrate economically competitive yields and lower GHG potential than Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways for corn ethanol or soy biodiesel.

Switchgrass and hybrid poplars would produce relatively high ethanol yields on marginal lands, but it likely will be another decade before cellulosic ethanol can compete with corn - based ethanol.

Ethanol can be extracted, with varying degrees of complexity, from all three main components of corn: the endosperm, the germ, and the fiber — the latter two yielding cellulosic eEthanol can be extracted, with varying degrees of complexity, from all three main components of corn: the endosperm, the germ, and the fiber — the latter two yielding cellulosic ethanolethanol.

Corn to ethanol yields per acre are around 40 % of sugar cane to ethanol yields, so I calculate that it would take 100 % of all the agricultural cropland of the USA to generate its current gasoline demand.

Almost all of this derives from corn, with one bushel of corn yielding about 2.7 gallons of ethanol and about 28 % of the U.S. corn crop going toward ethanol production.

This is the best case scenario for corn ethanol — current yield per acre projected to 2030 — without planting any additional corn acreage:

A new study shows that burning crops such as corn and switchgrass to create electricity to power electric vehicles would actually yield more transportation miles than turning those crops into ethanol.

The ethanol yield per acre from sugarcane is nearly 600 gallons, a third higher than that from corn.

PS Sugar cane ethanol yields per acre are around twice as high as those from corn (but sugar cane does not grow in most of the US).

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).

By displacing gasoline with ethanol, we are displacing geo - political risk with yield risk, and historical corn yields have been about twice as volatile as oil imports.

Concurrently they can increase the ethanol yield going from 285 gal / acre to 475 by increasing corn production

A longer growing season and superior photosynthetic efficiency contribute to Miscanthus» high yield The two principal reasons why Miscanthus yields more ethanol per acre than corn, Long explains, are that it makes green leaves 6 weeks earlier in the growing season and keeps them until late October.

Most ethanol produced in the United States is currently derived from corn, a relatively poor feedstock given its low yield and high fertilizer requirements which have been linked to water pollution, the expanded «dead zone» in the Gulf of Mexico, and significant greenhouse gas emissions.

Switchgrass a better biofuel source than corn (1/7/2008) Switchgrass yields more than 540 percent more energy than the energy needed to produce and convert it to ethanol, making the grassy weed a far superior source for biofuels than corn ethanol, reports a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).