Sentences with phrase «ethanol produced using»

«Energy outputs from ethanol produced using corn, switchgrass, and wood biomass were each less than the respective fossil energy inputs.

Not exact matches

It will initially produce methanol and later ethanol — enough each year to fill the tanks of 400,000 cars using a five per cent ethanol blend.

Later this year the company is scheduled to finish a $ 200 million - plus facility in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms.

Fermentation is triggered by lactic acid bacteria — or lactobacilli — and yeasts, which use the carbohydrate fuels from the cereal grains to produce ethanol (alcohol), carbon dioxide, lactic acid and acetic acid.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

The remaining sugar (for plants with less than 20 % oil) could be sold or used to produce ethanol.

And unlike the corn used to produce ethanol in the United States, algae do not compete with food for farmland, one of the biggest problems with current biofuels.

Together the two plants would produce, at best, 22 million gallons of ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into ethanol.

This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop.

The report added that «a biorefinery that produces 100 million gallons of ethanol per year, for example, would use the equivalent of the water supply for a town of about 5,000 people.»

After crunching the numbers, Vogel and his colleagues found that ethanol produced from switchgrass yields 540 % of the energy used to grow, harvest, and process it into ethanol.

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.

In November researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that producing corn ethanol consumes 28 gallons of water per mile traveled, whereas conventional petroleum uses 0.15 gallon.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

«Initially we used ethanol to produce the carbon nanotubes,» says Professor Losic.

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.

This means that switchgrass ethanol delivers 540 percent of the energy used to produce it, compared with just roughly 25 percent more energy returned by corn - based ethanol according to the most optimistic studies.

These numbers were compared with normal sugarcane, which can be used to produce ethanol, and soybean.

LanzaTech has partnered with Global Fortune 500 Companies and others to use this technology, including facilities that can each produce 100,000 gallons per year of ethanol, and a number of chemical ingredients for the manufacture of plastics.

Using corn to produce ethanol has driven up food prices in recent years, and converting forests and other areas into farmland to grow more corn for biofuels may well negate ethanol's improved greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).

Methanol is used for producing biodiesel, as a fuel, denaturant for ethanol, and is a greenhouse gas.

Using higher volume blends of ethanol to leverage the alcohol's inherent high octane rating to produce ethanol - gasoline blends with higher octane numbers could yield «substantial societal benefits», according to a team of researchers from Ford Motor Company.

The motor can be run on E85 Flex Fuel and produces slightly better power numbers when using ethanol.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuel.

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

Today, the House Energy and Commerce Committee should be holding a hearing on advancing America's, and the world's, energy future by initiating a sustained quest to break the economic shackles imposed by enduring dependence on oil (that doesn't involve using 40 percent of our corn crop to produce ethanol in a world facing food price spikes).

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

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.

Therefore 90 % of the liquid fuels used to produce the ethanol is from fossil fuels.

Crops can be used to produce automotive fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel.

Tennessee has the potential to produce billions of gallons of cellulosic ethanol by using 4.5 million acres of land identified by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory as ideal for energy crop cultivation.

If current levels of crop waste were used to produce biogas, 500 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced every year.

The Pixley Biogas, LLC anaerobic digester facility produces biomethane from cow manure to replace the natural gas used to heat Calgren Renewable Fuels» ethanol vehicle fuel.

Eligible feedstocks for gasoline substitutes are waste - based biomass and purpose grown crops with a carbon intensity substantially lower than current average California produced ethanol using Midwest corn feedstocks (80.7 gCO2 - eq / MJ).

And there was this: «By using a worldwide agricultural model to estimate emissions from land - use change,» Timothy Searchinger of Princeton and other researchers reported in 2008, «we found that corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings, nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years.»

National Research Council: [A] ccording to EPA's own estimates, corn - grain ethanol produced in 2011, which is almost exclusively made in biorefineries using natural gas as a heat source, is a higher emitter of GHG than gasoline.

The researchers examined three ways of using sunlight to power cars: a) the traditional method of converting corn or other plants to ethanol; b) converting energy crops into electricity for BEVs rather than producing ethanol; and C) using PVs to convert sunlight directly into electricity for BEVs.

Ethanol plants produce byproducts that can be used as feed for animals, in turn, factory farms can sell animal manure as fuel for ethanol Ethanol plants produce byproducts that can be used as feed for animals, in turn, factory farms can sell animal manure as fuel for ethanol ethanol plants.

The latter would mean, for example, using less corn and more switchgrass to produce fuel ethanol.

Crops can also be used to produce automotive fuels, including both ethanol and biodiesel.

The researchers found that using biomass to produce electricity for electric vehicles would produce 81 percent more transportation miles than using the same amount of crops to produce ethanol.

A key advantage of using yeast for cellulosic ethanol production is their ability to work over a broad temperature (< 44oC) and pH (3.0 — 8.0) range to produce large amounts of sugar.

California's LCFS also would have little or no impact on GHG emissions nationwide and would harm our nation's energy security by discouraging the use of Canadian crude oil — our nation's largest source of crude — and ethanol produced in the American Midwest.

The illustrious green movement who killed nuclear power in 1970s and brought about global warming by scrubbing shade - producing particulates from smokestacks and tailpipes are now bent on using a ginned up catastrophic climate change scenario to keep the price of oil elevated in order to keep the profit incentive alive for stupid expensive alternatives like windmills and ethanol from corn.

The ethanol industry has been criticized for the amount of energy used to grow crops and produce ethanol.

Industrial countries could produce enough sugar cane / grain ethanol and / or cellulosic ethanol to replace the 75 + million barrels / day they consume without adversed effects on food production and / or major changes in land use.

The search for new strategies generally falls in two camps: ways to use organic stuff other than corn to make ethanol, and ways to manipulate organisms to produce a different fuel identical to gasoline or diesel.

They see small - scale cellulosic refineries located near switchgrass grown on empty fields, beside pulp paper mill plants, or linked to municipal landfills, producing ethanol and using leftover biomass for co-generation of heat.