Qteros says that it can produce 120 - 135 gallons of
ethanol per ton of Recyllose.
The process is able to yield more than 100 gallons of
ethanol per ton of dry biomass.
Edeniq can produce 70 gallons of cellulosic advanced
ethanol per ton of biomass.
«We produce 70 gallons of
ethanol per ton of waste,» says engineer Arnold Klann, BlueFire's president and CEO.
Not exact matches
The cellulosic
ethanol process we developed was unique because it did not require multiple processing steps and the use of expensive laboratory - modified enzymes, the
ethanol bioprocessing system uses significantly less water and energy in
ethanol production resulting in larger yields
per ton of biomass.
From the atmosphere's point of view, growing biomass to burn in a power plant and using the electricity to move a car avoids 10
tons of carbon dioxide emissions
per acre, or 108 percent more emission offsets than
ethanol.
The company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel
per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more
ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.
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.
The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS
ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000
tons of biomass
per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel
per day.
Algae is being produced at the rate of 200 to 300
tons per acre, and that will be integrated with corn
ethanol and livestock.
By 2012, Coskata envisions commercial production of 50 — 60 million gallons of
ethanol per year, made by gasification of approximately 1,500 dry
tons of biomass
per day.
Hemp grown for both seed and biomass has a stalk yield of up to 3.5
tons per acre, which would make it an economical source of cellulose for
ethanol production.
This equals around 1.3
tons ethanol per acre, which replaces 1.0
tons octane equivalent gasoline.
The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into
ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million
tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.
The EPA considers an
ethanol plant as a «major source» of pollution if it produces more than 100
tons of any one pollutant
per year, although it has recently proposed increasing that cap to 250
tons.»
Now, sludge is about 25 percent solids, so we can surmise that there is about 61
tons of Recyllose in there, which in Qteros» yield range gives us about 7,320 - 8,235 gallons of
ethanol per month, or just south of 100,000 gallons
per year.