Sentences with phrase «ethanol production from»

Ethanol production from corn also creates byproducts, like corn oil and gluten feed, which are valuable (albeit not fuel - related) commodities; considering all of these variables can eventually cancel the shortfall.

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

It is the planned expansion of ethanol production from corn.

Cellulosic ethanol will allow ethanol production from lands not suitable for crops.

Integrating cellulose and traditional ethanol production from starch or sugarcane is the most rapidly scalable approach to the large - scale production of cellulosic ethanol.

Part of the $ 150 billion, 10 - year expenditure — the centerpiece of his energy plan — is to develop these resources as well as shift ethanol production from corn to cellulose - based sources that do not affect the food supply.

Not exact matches

And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.

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.

«The uses for corn in ethanol production coupled with drought conditions throughout the Midwest growing regions have led to dramatic price increases affecting everything from prepared foods to animal feed for our dairy and meat products,» he states.

Other agricultural production goods include timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, industrial chemicals (starch, sugar, alcohols and resins), fibers (cotton, wool, hemp, silk and flax), fuels (methane from biomass, ethanol, biodiesel), cut flowers, ornamental and nursery plants, tropical fish and birds for the pet trade, and both legal and illegal drugs (biopharmaceuticals, tobacco, marijuana, opium, cocaine).

Reynolds even believes that if ethanol production hits 10 billion gallons and consumers embrace E85 — the 85 percent ethanol mix — a dedicated pipeline from the Midwest to the East Coast could make economic sense, although the conventional wisdom remains against him.

Between 2003 and 2007, corn - based ethanol production in the United States rose from 2 billion to 5 billion gallons.

Global ethanol production tripled between 2000 and 2007 from 17 billion to more than 52 billion liters.

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.

«It is possible that lignin could turn out to be more valuable than cellulose and could subsidize the production of ethanol from sustainable biomass.»

«The next phase of biofuel production will be getting away from ethanol; it's less energy - dense than petroleum,» said Carothers.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

Corn - based ethanol doesn't meet that test and won't benefit from the new standard, CARB says, because diverting corn into ethanol production increases deforestation and the clearing of grasslands.

This water is obtained from underground aquifers, and as ethanol production reaches a fever pitch in Iowa, the state's water supply is threatened.

The recent achievements of the institute, based in southern India and with half a dozen hubs across Africa, include advances in pea hybrids and commercial production of ethanol from sweet sorghum.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

It's in areas where there are lots of cattle (and the large amountsof manure they inevitably give back to the world) that companies are bestequipped to divert animal waste from contaminating the air (via methane, CO2, and ammonia gases) and water towards fueling ethanol production.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

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).

Cellulosic's slow path to commercial use Two weeks ago, INEOS Bio announced it had begun commercial production of cellulosic ethanol from yard waste in its Vero Beach, Fla., plant.

Future technologies that need R&D: high - efficiency photovoltaics (say, 50 % conversion)(as well as lowering the cost of PV), energy storage systems for intermittent sources like solar and wind (hydrogen storage, other methods), advances in biofuel technology (for example, hydrogen production from algae, cellulosic ethanol, etc..)

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.

The staff of the California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted three new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) fuel pathway applications to the LCFS public comments website: one for corn ethanol (from Heartland Corn Products in Minnesota) and one ARB staff - developed pathway (with two scenarios) for the production of... Read more →

Production of an Acetone - Butanl - Ethanol Mixture from Clostridium Acetobutylicum and Its Conversion to High - Value Biofuels, Sanil Sreekumar, Zachary C. Baer, Anbarasan Pazhamalai, Gorkem Gunbas, Adam Grippo, Harvey W. Blanch, Douglas S. Clark, F. Dean Toste, Nature Protocols, doi: 10.1038 / nprot.2015.029, February 2015.

The prevailing approach to biofuels production is to convert plant sugars from traditional food crops into ethanol using centuries - old fermentation practices.

Future harvest of corn stover for cellulosic ethanol production would increase erosion (i.e. sedimentation) and nutrient loads from corn land, they said.

I don't see how our subsidies for making ethanol from corn, for example, spill over to the production of high fructose corn syrup.

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.

«With vehicles that span the spectrum from exotic prototypes to production - based cars and fuels that range from cellulosic E10 and E85 ethanol to clean diesel and hybrids, the Green Challenge is a true benchmark for race teams to compare their engineering capabilities,» said Steve Wesoloski, GM Racing Road Racing Group manager.

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.

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.

The key factors determining carbon emissions for corn - based ethanol are (1) whether coal or natural gas is used to power the ethanol plant, (2) whether distillers grains are dried or sold wet, and (3) whether expansion of corn acreage comes mainly from reduced acreage of lower - value crops or if idled land is brought into production.

«Since 2000, global wind energy generation has more than tripled; solar cell production has risen six-fold; production of fuel ethanol from crops have more than doubled; and biodiesel production has expanded nearly four-fold.

In this line, the plan estimates that national production of ethanol will go from 25.6 billion liters this year to almost double in 2017 (53.2 billion).

The food shortages and riots that have wracked the world in recent months, from the Philippines to Egypt to Haiti, have starkly dramatized the moral bankruptcy inherent in our government's continued subsidies for the production of corn ethanol.

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.

He's terrible on trade, supporting maintenance of the tariff on imported Brazilian ethanol made from sugarcane, and has pushed for a dramatic expansion of the subsidies for ethanol production in this country.

The best biofuel is still ethanol from corn but it has to be part of an integrated production facility which should include the following steps: cattle feed lot, feed all waste (distiller's dried solids) to the cattle, convert the cattle waste to methane to supply part of the energy source for the distillation, burn the dry crop waste to provide the remainder of the energy, irrigate the crops with the effluent from the methane digestor.

This will require some technological breakthroughs since the production of ethanol from such sources as switch grass require the use of cellulosic enzymes whose economical production has not been perfected yet.

Corn production has increased to meet the demand from ethanol.

Each plant produced 5,000 to 7,000 gallons of ethanol per day from wood waste, and both were in production for several years (Sherrard 1945).

The two scientists calculated all the fuel inputs for ethanol production — from the diesel fuel for the tractor planting the corn, to the fertilizer put in the field, to the energy needed at the processing plant — and found that ethanol is a net energy - loser.

The catalysts are derived from an environmentally benign cyanobacterium that exists naturally in the wild, and Joule has redirected the metabolism of multiple strains for the production of specific products, including ethanol and diesel - range alkanes — an industry first.