Sentences with phrase «ethanol production by»

The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has increased ethanol production by about 400,000 barrels per day (bbl / d) since 2000.

It shows that the Troika increases annual corn ethanol production by only 5.2 billion gallons in 2015.

Each center's goal is aimed at establishing technologies to ease cellulose - to - ethanol production by overcoming obstacles using woody materials.

Not exact matches

Due to the demands of ethanol production, the corn ETF ($ KORN) is also influenced by what crude costs.

Colorado - based Range Fuels received an $ 80 million loan guarantee from the USDA to help fund its refinery, which began production by making methanol instead of ethanol last year.

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

A more realistic, if still optimistic, scenario sketched by the National Corn Growers Association anticipates that corn ethanol production will quadruple to 16 billion gallons by 2015, not quite 7 percent of the likely demand.

By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

Chemical engineer Inés Reyero Zaragoza proposed the substitution of methanol by ethanol for the production of biodiesel and the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, which will «result in a reduction of costs and in the environmental impact associated with the production of this biofuel.»

At a biofuels energy symposium hosted by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies last week in Washington, D.C., professor Jerald Schnoor said corn ethanol production facilities require large quantities of high - purity water during the fermentation process.

By applying this new technology to enzymes required for the production of ethanol — an important biofuel — the researchers were able to increase alcohol production by over 200 By applying this new technology to enzymes required for the production of ethanol — an important biofuel — the researchers were able to increase alcohol production by over 200 by over 200 %.

Farmers make the fuel by chemically treating corn kernels to isolate the sugars and then feeding the sugars to yeast, which digests them and secretes ethanol.Not only do the corn husks and stalks go to waste, but ethanol production has driven up the price of the corn that is used for food by reducing its availability.

A handful of other cellulosic ethanol plants, which will make biofuels from corn stover, wheat straw and municipal waste, plan to begin production by next year (ClimateWire, Aug. 5).

Celanese Corporation, developer of a hydrocarbons - to - ethanol production process derived from its acetyl technology (earlier post) announced plans in June to enter the industrial ethanol market in China by revamping the market entry strategy to allow the company to enter 6 - 12 months sooner than originally planned.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

Meats from feedlots can be given such things as corn, corn by - products (some is derived from high fructose corn syrup production and ethanol), barley, milo, wheat, and other grains and roughage that often consists of corn stalks, alfalfa, cottonseed meal, and premixes of chemical preservatives, antibiotics, and fermentation products.

@raydowe - The carbon by - product is called carbon dioxide, and if the ethanol is from biological sources the carbon dioxide has in the fuel production stage been captured from the atmosphere, so there are no net carbon dioxide emissions.

* U.S. ethanol production falls 32,000 bpd to 872,000 bpd * U.S. weekly ethanol stocks rise to 18.8 mln barrels (Corrects recent high in ethanol futures to three - year high from record high, paragraph eight) By Michael Hirtzer CHICAGO, July 13 (Reuters)- U.S. ethanol production fell 3.5 percent while stocks climbed in the latest reporting week, despite profitable margins at many biofuel refineries.

The Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car is based on the production Z06 — already one of the fastest and most powerful cars on the market — and is powered by E85, which consists of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline.

«The use of E85 ethanol fuel by America's premier production sports car racing team in a high - profile, high - tech racing series like the ALMS shows that Chevy is continuing to lead by example.»

Supplements: Hydrolyzed yeast is a by - product of the production of ethanol.

Analysis by Kansas State grain scientists found that next generation DDGs (left - overs from the production of ethanol that includes residues of yeast) contain 50.8 percent crude protein, compared with 47.8 percent in soybean meal or 67.1 percent in corn gluten meal.

We could start by phasing out all subsidies for the production of fossil fuels and ethanol.

One good example that will go down in to the history books is the government solution by subsidising and mandating ethanol production.

What people fail to realize is that Brazil's economic and energy boom is not being fueled by ethanol alone, but by vast oil deposits they are aggresivly extracting (the reason one George Soros invested 900 million in Petrobas, isn't it nice that he gives money to people who wish to restrict american production but pours hundreds of millions into foreign oil companies.).

The last drew a round of applause, and Mr. Clinton took the opportunity to endorse — perhaps controversially — the effort undertaken by President Bush and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva last year: To heavily promote the production and use of ethanol made from sugar cane throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ethanol makers experienced improved financial performance because of changes out of their control - as in the case of natural gas prices falling drastically in response to increased fracking for natural gas production - but lost money because of increased corn prices caused by escalating Chinese grain demand.

Since 2008, ethanol production has increased by 33 percent.

Overview: Mandates, Zero Production, Penalties, and the Failure of the Current System In the previous post, I discussed the annual ritual of rolling back the cellulosic ethanol mandates by 90 % or more.

Biofuel programs pursued by Europe and the United States during the last two decades caused an additional 41 million hectares of land to be used for ethanol and biodiesel production, an area the size of Germany.

For cellulosic ethanol production just to match this output, the grasses or trees must achieve almost double the national cellulosic yields estimated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and two to four times the perennial grass yields farmers actually achieve today in the United States.

The renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental plants is only about 3 to 4 million gallons, he said.

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 daBy 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 daby gasification of approximately 1,500 dry tons of biomass per day.

By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn BelBy the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belby hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.

The production and use of ethanol merely recycles in a different way the CO2 that has been fixed by plants in the photosynthesis process.

``... the U.S. Department of Agriculture was subsidizing ethanol production from the start by providing grants to purchase special ethanol blender pumps.

By comparison The US oil consumption increased by 137.6 million barrels from 6851.4 mmbbls in 2009 to 6989.0 mmbbls in 2010 so this ethanol production did not stop the increase in US oil consumption and only served to raise the price of corn through government subsidies affecting only the pooBy comparison The US oil consumption increased by 137.6 million barrels from 6851.4 mmbbls in 2009 to 6989.0 mmbbls in 2010 so this ethanol production did not stop the increase in US oil consumption and only served to raise the price of corn through government subsidies affecting only the pooby 137.6 million barrels from 6851.4 mmbbls in 2009 to 6989.0 mmbbls in 2010 so this ethanol production did not stop the increase in US oil consumption and only served to raise the price of corn through government subsidies affecting only the poor.

7, no. 18 (26 May 2009), p. 365; F.O. Licht, «Biodiesel: World Production, by Country,» World Ethanol and Biofuels Report, vol.

Montford notes «By 2012... some estimates suggest that 40 percent of the US corn crop was being used for ethanol production.»

«The biofuels researcher Timothy Searchinger has calculated that once the massive release of greenhouse gases cause by converting grassland and rainforest into cropland is taken into account, introduction of biofuels produces increases in greenhouse emissions, the size of the rise being as much as a doubling for corn ethanol production,» Montford tells us.

Unfortunately, President Obama is following President Carter by seeking approval from the environmental movement by thwarting domestic fossil fuel production and promoting unreliable, uneconomic renewable energy sources of solar, wind, ethanol from corn, and other biofuels.

By - products of ethanol production include distiller's grain, which is used as a very low cost cattle feed, and also corn oil can be extracted, which can be converted into biodiesel.

CARD claims that from January 2000 to December 2011, «the growth in ethanol production reduced wholesale gasoline prices by $ 0.29 per gallon on average across all regions,» and that in 2011 ethanol lowered gasoline prices by a whopping $ 1.09 per gallon.

Because of this policy, ethanol production now consumes approximately 40 percent of the U.S. corn crop, and the cost of corn for use in food production has increased by 193 percent since 2005 [the year before the RFS took effect].

Producers generally sell directly to fueling stations, which explains why ethanol has taken root in the Midwest, center of U.S. corn production, or send it by rail to terminals to be blended with gasoline.

Incidentally, how would the net btu's / acre achieved by ethanol production (if any) compare to the btu's / acre that could be achieved by using solar cells to electrolyze water during sun hours, then burning the hydrogen and oxygen in a conventional steam plant 24/7 at a rate slightly less than the average rate of O2 / H2 production?

During the period under evaluation by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, America's Soviet - style production quota for ethanol, a motor fuel distilled from corn, increased almost 4 billion gallons, or 104 billion pounds of maize.

According to a 2008 analysis by Iowa State University, the growth in U.S. ethanol fuel production caused retail gasoline prices to be 29 — 40 cents per gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.

Regardless whether the Ag chair was a Republican or a Democrat, the Committee, which is dominated by corn - belt politicians, showered ethanol with subsidies and give - aways - and even a Soviet - style production quota that forces consumers to use it.