Sentences with phrase «ethanol at»

For instance, Congress is currently subsidizing corn - based ethanol at 50 cents a gallon — and you can argue that's good agricultural policy, but you can't argue that it's good for consumers or the environment.

«This lack of parity puts imported ethanol at a competitive disadvantage against imported oil,» the letter states.

Blending ethanol at the pump is becoming popular, because many people have discovered the MPG sweet spot of their particular engine.

Furthermore, by leaving 35 % water in the ethanol at the refinery, up to 60 % of the cost to distill it is saved.

Blending in ethanol at greater than 10 percent can cause problems with engine materials breaking down and the operation of emission - control systems, according to the American Petroleum Institute.

SunOpta's patented pretreatment and hydrolysis technology will prep and convert sugar cane bagasse and possibly hard wood waste to ethanol at a plant in Jennings, Louisiana.

Further, Bolsen reported that Coskata has licensed a variety of anaerobic bacterial strains capable of converting both CO and H2, and has patents pending for its bioreactor designs, which are scalable and capable of carrying out fermentation or converting syngas to ethanol at low - to - moderate pressures and low temperatures.

The company believes it will reduce, by $ 50 to $ 100 million, the capital expense for cellulosic ethanol at scale, and dramatically lower the operating costs.

However, we only have about 10 years until the Renewable Fuel Standard ceases increasing, and we have yet to produce any cellulosic ethanol at all.

Right now we're taxing sugar - based ethanol at 54 cents per gallon while we are subsidizing corn - based ethanol at 45 cents per gallon, even though sugar - based ethanol is cheaper and producing it generates less carbon dioxide.

These strains of yeast have the ability to grow anaerobically on xylose at rates equivalent to those on glucose, to consume > 95 percent of the xylose present, even under toxic conditions, and to ferment this xylose to ethanol at high yield.

In brief, dissected corneas were slide mounted and fixed in ethanol at -20 °C for 20 min.

«One of the most important concerns with regard to the integrity of pipelines and tanks is the propensity of ethanol at concentrations above 20 volume percent in gasoline to cause cracking of steel,» explains Narasi Sridhar, vice president, director of the materials program at Det Norske Veritas.

The price of pure ethanol at the pump is so high that in most states it is cheaper to fill up flexible - fuel cars with petrol blends that contain about 20 % ethanol.

«As the waste material is introduced you can produce your gas from the gasifier within an hour and you'll start getting ethanol at six hours.

Above: Rubber hoses pipe liquid ethanol at — 40 °C into cuffs that surround the frozen brain, keeping it precisely chilled.

New machinery developed by Biorefining Inc. in Minnesota precisely breaks kernels into their constituent elements, which may convert more of the starch into ethanol at a lower cost, while also freeing up more of the valuable coproducts like corn oil.

Tinctures are made by soaking chopped, puréed, or gently bruised roots, leaves, and herbs in a combination of high - proof alcohol (frequently ethanol at a manufacturer level) and water.

Not exact matches

There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.

Even with the tariff, U.S. ethanol exports hit a record high in February, thanks largely to rising Brazilian demand as higher gasoline prices and low international sugar prices made ethanol more competitive at the pump.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers of 366 million liters, valued at around $ 170 million.

«Many factories are celebrating their ten - year anniversaries,» says Emily Skor, the CEO of Growth Energy, an organization that represents producers and supporters of ethanol, «and if you look at the risks they took the ups and downs and peaks and valleys they went through... it's really remarkable.

I'm old enough to remember when ethanol blends first began to appear at gas stations.

Clayton explains that small - to - medium size farmers «want the EPA off their backs, regulatory-wise» and at the same time don't want to see changes in terms of ethanol.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

A U.S. Department of Agriculture report said the Japanese policy change could create a market opportunity for U.S. ethanol producers of 366 million liters, valued at around $ 170 million.

A 5 percent ethanol solution was no more effective than water at cutting the burn.

In another stroke of luck, New York dairy farmers have been well - positioned in recent years because they tend to grow much of their own feed corn, putting them at a competitive advantage over their larger California competitors: West Coast dairies are struggling with the high price of corn brought on by international demand, drought conditions and ethanol subsidies.

A strategic decision was made at the time by the government to switch to ethanol production in order to fuel the Brazilian fleet.

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

«It's really easy to make by «drying» ethanol with sulfuric acid,» notes Gee, cautioning that making it is best left to dragons and scientists — don't try this at home.

In the long run, consumers did not appear to have been greatly punished at the pump for using ethanol.

At some point, though, corn ethanol will hit a wall.

The biotech companies claim a 30-fold reduction since 2000, from about $ 5.60 per gallon of ethanol to at most 18 cents; NREL puts the cost at 32 cents.

The «plus» at Corn Plus is ethyl alcohol, better known as ethanol.

«We're looking at wood chips and other feedstock sources that are not necessarily in the mainstream for ethanol but are in abundance in our region.

Ethanol from places like Corn Plus travels by barge or railroad to distribution terminals, then is combined with gasoline at the rack where tanker trucks load up.

Robert Reynolds, a consultant who has studied ethanol infrastructure for the Department of Energy, says ethanol would have to make up at least 30 percent of the gasoline supply to justify the expense of making current oil pipelines fit for sharing.

Thomas Foust, the biotechnology manager at NREL, says the cost of making ethanol from cellulose has dropped to $ 2.26 a gallon or less.

«The idea is that a small reduction in alcohol — such as beer with four per cent ethanol content versus six per cent — would reduce alcohol intake per drinker even if the same overall amount of beverage is consumed,» says Dr. Jürgen Rehm, lead author and Director of the Institute for Mental Health Policy Research at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada.

The goal, however, is $ 1.07 — what NREL and the Energy Department figured was the cost to make a gallon of ethanol from corn kernels at the time NREL made the enzyme pact.

Adding new infrastructure at the terminals did not prove daunting; railroads delivered tank cars full of ethanol on time.

The FAA has already approved at least one biofuel — ethanol — as an alternative fuel for two types of aircraft and engines, including the Piper Pawnee powered by Lycoming IO - 540 engines.

Both Brazilian sugarcane farmers who turn excess to ethanol and Chinese city dwellers who enjoy hot tea thanks to solar water heaters don't realize it but they are at the forefront of what an international panel of scientists hopes the future will look like.

She and her colleagues at Helios, a joint project of U.C. Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, want to build an artificial leaf that drips ethanol, or some other alcohol, which you could pump right into your gas tank.

Michael Oshinsky at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and colleagues tested the effect of low doses of ethanol — about the equivalent of a single drink — on rats prone to migraines.

Chemists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are closing in on cheap ways to make cellulosic ethanol, a form of ethanol derived from agricultural waste rather than food crops like soybeans or corn.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

Previously developed techniques for generating hydrogen from ethanol are best suited to large - scale production at specialized facilities, however, because they require external sources of heat.

At first Clanton thought the culprit was a widely used livestock feed called Distillers Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS), a cereal - like byproduct of ethanol distillation.