Sentences with phrase «ethanol distilleries»

Investments in U.S. corn - based ethanol distilleries became hugely profitable when oil prices jumped above $ 60 a barrel following Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels.

Suddenly investments in U.S. corn - based ethanol distilleries became hugely profitable, unleashing an investment frenzy that will convert one fourth of the 2009 U.S. grain harvest into fuel for cars.

Then came the explosion in grain used in U.S. ethanol distilleries, which jumped from 54 million tons in 2006 to 95 million tons in 2008.

Fuel Ethanol Distilleries in Production and under Construction in the United States by State, Listed by Data Source

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This received a big boost in Brazil, when companies with cane - based ethanol distilleries realized that burning bagasse, the fibrous material left after the sugar syrup is extracted, could simultaneously produce heat for their fermentation process and generate electricity that they could sell to the local utility.

With 200 ethanol distilleries in the country set up to transform food into fuel, the amount of grain processed has tripled since 2004.

Eligible CO2 sources include power plants that burn coal, natural gas, or oil and industrial facilities such as petroleum refineries, oil and gas production facilities, iron and steel mills, cement plants, fertilizer plants, ethanol distilleries and chemical plants.

In the United States, the world's leading corn producer and exporter, more corn is now sent to ethanol distilleries than is used in livestock and poultry feed.