Sentences with phrase «ethanol use in»

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 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..

Not exact matches

There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.

Much of the ETBE used in Japan is already made in the United States using Brazilian sugarcane ethanol, so the new rules should make it easy for producers to switch quickly to U.S. corn - based sources.

Then I noticed the Sunoco fuel used by NASCAR teams is an E-15 blend... and long story short, in my effort to become more socially responsible, I have become an ethanol proponent.

(Most gasoline contains 10 % ethanol, but regulators have approached E-15 (15 % ethanol) for use in vehicles manufactured from 2001 on, and all new car warranties approve the use of E-15.)

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

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.

Corn is increasingly being used to convert into ethanol in the U.S. and in high demand in China where it it used to feed into the meat industry, and it has yet to be seen how this year's significant loss in harvest will impact grain use across the globe.

In order to completely isolate the reb A, ethanol or methanol are used as a solvent to allow separation through crystallization.

«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.

«The process uses water and food grade ethanol only, there are no other chemicals or solvents in the entire process.

I used in my extraction methods the full AOAC method and also used acetonitrile sonication and ethanol sonication and compared the results for these.

Hypothetically, if all the main cereal and sugar crops (wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, sugar cane, cassava and sugar beet), representing 42 % of global cropland, were to be converted to ethanol, this would correspond to only 57 % of total petrol use in 2003, and leave no cereals or sugar for human consumption (although the reduced sugar in the human diet would have health benefits).

Addressing journalists in Kumasi, Ashanti Regional Police Commander, COP Ken Yeboah, said the suspect disclosed that the composition of the drinks are Ethanol, water and color, while he used disposed bottles in the packaging of the products.

Ethanol and biodiesel can both be used in bio-jet fuel, but the technologies to convert plant - derived oil to jet fuel are at an advanced stage of development, yield high energy efficiency and are ready for large - scale deployment.

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.

With these experimental results, it is shown that, using the carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, plant biomass could be converted into ethanol in a single reaction pot without washing / separation processes.

In the long run, consumers did not appear to have been greatly punished at the pump for using ethanol.

Using Patzek's methodology for every aspect of ethanol production save the conversion process itself, a gallon of Corn Plus ethanol consumes less energy than it contains — even before factoring in credit for coproducts.

This is a fluidized bed reactor, an energy - generation technology that has been used for decades to power paper mills and waste - treatment plants but that had never before been installed in an ethanol plant.

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.

The researchers, who found that ethanol requires 29 percent more fossil energy than it provides, question the morality of using grain to fuel cars in the face of world hunger.

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

KERRY: The senator has proposed «a new Manhattan Project to make America independent of Middle East oil in 10 years» by increasing the use of alternative fuels like ethanol and insisting that standards for auto mileage be raised.

Right now ethanol is used mostly as a fuel additive; about one - third of the gasoline sold in the United States contains a shot of ethanol (about 10 percent, typically) to reduce automobile emissions.

Back in 1992, when I had started losing my hearing, a friend lent me a jar full of newly collected velvet asities preserved in ethanol to use for some anatomical research.

While ethanol currently makes up less than 4 percent of the motor fuel used nationally, the corn used in ethanol production constitutes 14 percent of the domestic crop.

«In terms of consumer ownership and use costs, the case to make a switch from current fuels to compressed natural gas (CNG) is much more compelling than for other alternative fuels like ethanol and electricity.»

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.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

In standard production of ethanol, enzymes are used to break down the biomass and release sugars.

In this process, the titanium dioxide and platinum precursors are dissolved in ethanol and converted to a fog using an ultrasonic batIn this process, the titanium dioxide and platinum precursors are dissolved in ethanol and converted to a fog using an ultrasonic batin ethanol and converted to a fog using an ultrasonic bath.

In this research ethanol was used instead of methanol.

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.

Shifts in the use of gasoline and ethanol to fuel vehicles in Sao Paulo created a unique atmospheric chemistry experiment

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.»

Copper is a catalyst — a material used to activate and speed up chemical reactions — and, while it aids in the production of ethanol when exposed to CO2 and water, it is not efficient enough to make large quantities of ethanol.

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

Turning the food crop into ethanol would not be the best use of the energy embedded in the kernels» carbohydrates, according to a new study in Science.

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 E. coli can be grown in large fermentation tanks, exactly like those used to brew ethanol from corn, and have also been genetically tweaked to tolerate high concentrations of BDO in their water.

Even cassava is edging out other crops in Thailand because China uses it to make ethanol.

In fact, compared with ethanol, which enhances synaptic plasticity only after long - term use, «stress can do the same job more rapidly,» Morikawa says.

The technology used to convert ethanol into butanol is called a catalyst — these are chemicals which can speed up and control a chemical reaction and are already widely used in the petrochemical industry.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

Vertimass LLC, a California - based start - up company, has licensed an Oak Ridge National Laboratory technology that directly converts ethanol into a hydrocarbon blend - stock for use in transportation fuels.

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than gasoline, according to a study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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.

In a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engineIn a few areas, primarily the Midwest, a blend that is 85 percent ethanol (E85) is also sold for use in vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel enginein vehicles that have so - called flex - fuel engines.