Sentences with phrase «ethanol use»

After 2014, the mandated ethanol use in gasoline would revert back to the scheduled increases.

Also, there are no large - scale changes in infrastructure required for ethanol use.

A number of companies are also trying to convert municipal solid waste into ethanol using a range of processes.

Since the fatty liver is a critical step toward insulin resistance, it is no surprise that excessive ethanol use is also a risk factor for the development of metabolic syndrome.

NERA set up its study that way for good reasons: Despite abundant evidence that RFS mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use in the nation's fuel supply are detached from reality, and although it's pretty clear EPA has mismanaged the RFS to the detriment of those obligated to meet its mandates — the ethanol industry insists that the program continue as statutorily set out in 2007.

The cellulosic ethanol used by Corvette Racing is made from waste wood — dead trees, undergrowth, broken branches, and bark — collected in South Dakota's Black Hills National Forest to reduce the risk of wildfire.

EPA is out with ethanol use requirements for 2018 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), and the big takeaway is that a broken program remains in place — its original purpose superseded by surging domestic oil production and U.S. consumers still at risk.

Every increase in ethanol use as fuel will increases the amount of ozone pollution in the United States.

First, a new University of Tennessee report finds that the RFS and its ethanol mandates fall short on a number of environmental fronts, and that without mandated ethanol use the corn ethanol industry couldn't survive commercially.

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.

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).

The study, «Trans - generational transmission of the effect of gestational ethanol exposure on ethanol use - related behavior,» was published Feb. 15 in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

A recent study simulated a side - by - side comparison of the yields and costs of producing ethanol using miscanthus, switchgrass, and corn residue.

The Ethanol Promotion and Information Council (EPIC), the leader in bringing «green» fuels to motorsports, contracted KL Process Design Group to provide the cellulosic E85 racing ethanol used by Corvette Racing.

Legislation requires retailers to label fuels containing ethanol on the dispenser, and limits ethanol use to 10 % of gasoline in Australia.

The paper didn't fail to mention what we have reported on before, that corn farming for ethanol using management practices such as commercial fertilizer application, mechanical tillage, and intensive drainage is the most important driver of this increase in nitrogen pollution.

With the first public hearing on EPA proposals for 2014 ethanol use scheduled Thursday, policymakers should pay attention to how ethanol mandates under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) are affecting regular Americans.

The Trump decision to permit year - round 15 - per - cent blends may be a shell game of another kind, since it's expected to be coupled with a transfer of ethanol subsidies from U.S. domestic consumption to exports, a move that could decimate ethanol use in the U.S..

Today's ethanol boom has nothing to do with Gaffney & Co.'s extreme solution, but if ethanol use were to evolve into the mainstream, it would multiply the plug - in's gas savings.

Ethanol production costs and prices have ruled out U.S. ethanol use at levels higher than E10.

Exciting new technologies are assisting with this transition: some convert fast growing grasses to ethanol using biochemistry, some convert waste into gases (a mix of hydrogen and carbon monoxide called synthesis gas) that are then converted into ethanol, and others use algae or other microorganisms to make fuel directly from water or sunlight.

Biofuels Digest quotes Barbassa as saying that gasoline has now become «the alternative fuel»: In fact Petrobras predicts that by 2020 that the gasoline market for light vehicles will shrink by 17 %, with ethanol use increasing.

Important testimony at a House hearing yesterday from U.S. Energy Information Administration chief Adam Sieminski on flaws in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), including its mandates for increasing ethanol use.

Since ethanol producers» goal is more ethanol use, and an EPA pullback on E15 would get in the way of that goal, attacks on both studies — such as those by the Renewable Fuels Association — aren't surprising.

Reduced ultrafine particle levels in São Paulo's atmosphere during shifts from gasoline to ethanol use by Alberto Salvo, Joel Brito, Paulo Artaxo, & Franz M. Geiger.

Finalized federal requirements for ethanol use in 2014, 2015 and 2016 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) are scheduled to come out later this year.

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The Federal Government provides a 51Â cents tax exemption to gasoline refiners for every gallon of ethanol used, to keep the product competitive.

Until recently, nearly all the ethanol used to make ethyl tert - butyl ether (ETBE) for Japanese consumption has come from Brazil, whose sugarcane - based ethanol boasts lower emissions of greenhouse gas carbon dioxide than U.S. ethanol made from corn.

The ethanol used in the U.S. is currently brewed from the starch in corn kernels, which has brought ethanol producers (and government ethanol mandates) into conflict with other uses for corn, such as food or animal feed.

The U.S. is about to hit the «blending wall,» the saturation point for ethanol use, because it does not have the infrastructure to meet the federal mandate for renewable - fuels use with ethanol.

I understand there is 10 % loss to fuel economy with ethanol use and this would acccount for getting 2 mpg less than advertised.

Brazil is renowned for being a world leader in ethanol use and this telling statistic bears that out: According to Petrobras CFO Almir Barbassa ethanol now powers more than 50 % of all the light vehicles in the nation.

This does seem like a redeeming quality, but is not enough of a reason to expand corn - ethanol use.

The politics of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its mandates for ever - increasing ethanol use are on display this weekend in Iowa, a key presidential primary state.

Indeed, Domenici's committee last month adopted a measure in the energy bill requiring gasoline refiners to increase the ethanol they use each year to 8 billion gal.

So, EPA is aiming at restricting ozone from industrialization, while our government policy simultaneously (and perhaps even unintentionally) increases overall ozone levels through a mandate for ethanol use.

For example, starch from corn grown in the midwest has traditionally been the source of some of the ethanol used as a fuel additive in the U.S.. Another option for the conversion of cellulosic biomass, such as hemp stalks, to ethanol is their hydrolysis to sugar, followed by fermentation and removal of the produced ethanol by distillation.