Sentences with phrase «ethanol yields»

PS Sugar cane ethanol yields per acre are around twice as high as those from corn (but sugar cane does not grow in most of the US).

Corn to ethanol yields per acre are around 40 % of sugar cane to ethanol yields, so I calculate that it would take 100 % of all the agricultural cropland of the USA to generate its current gasoline demand.

Switchgrass and hybrid poplars would produce relatively high ethanol yields on marginal lands, but it likely will be another decade before cellulosic ethanol can compete with corn - based ethanol.

The media speak of Algae oil, several recent articles in the media, or grasses that increase existing ethanol yields by up to 250 % (recently reported again in the UK media), of CCS trials in Australia, of CCS ready power stations (hillarious to be fair) and of wind and solar farms portrayed as if they will solve our carbon emissions issues.

There are higher ethanol yield crops that can be grown in areas unsuitable for corn.

It must be possible to improve the ethanol yield per tree with 50 to 100 %.»

«We're pretty confident the ethanol yield is pretty close.»

The ethanol yield per acre from sugarcane is nearly 600 gallons, a third higher than that from corn.

• Biodiesel production using soybean required 27 % more fossil energy than the biodiesel fuel produced (Note, the energy yield from soy oil per hectare is far lower than the ethanol yield from corn).

Concurrently they can increase the ethanol yield going from 285 gal / acre to 475 by increasing corn production

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

«Our method of direct conversion of ethanol offers a pathway to produce suitable hydrocarbon blend - stock that may be blended at a refinery to yield fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel or commodity chemicals,» Narula said.

Previous studies on switchgrass plots suggested that ethanol made from the plant would yield anywhere from 343 % to 700 % of the energy put into growing the crop and processing it into biofuel.

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.

Now, the first large - scale study shows that switchgrass yields more than five times the energy needed to grow, harvest, and transport the grass and convert it to ethanol.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

But yields from a grass that only needs to be planted once would deliver an average of 13.1 megajoules of energy as ethanol for every megajoule of petroleum consumed — in the form of nitrogen fertilizers or diesel for tractors — growing them.

Our TransFerm and TransFerm Yield + bioengineered yeast products are widely used in the corn ethanol industry and our next generation products are ready to deploy for industrial cellulosic ethanol production.

These facilities and those that follow will be driven by the same dynamic as grain ethanol, namely that industry profitability will be driven by ongoing reduction of processing costs such as enzymes and energy, as well as by increasing yields.

These strains of yeast have the ability to grow anaerobically on xylose at rates equivalent to those on glucose, to consume > 95 percent of the xylose present, even under toxic conditions, and to ferment this xylose to ethanol at high yield.

Mascoma has developed yeast that can be dropped into all cellulosic ethanol fermentation processes to increase yields by fermenting the full array of sugars present in cellulosic fermentations, and by secreting enzymes (cellulases and hemicellulases) that can improve hydrolysis yields.

Achieving high rates, yields and titers under challenging industrial conditions has presented a barrier for ethanol producers.

A mixture of 3 - methoxybenzaldehyde (50 g, 367.64 mmol) and (2, 4 - dimethylphenyl) hydrazine hydrochloride (63.23 g, 367.64 mmol) in EtOH (50 mL) was stirred at room temperature for 1 h, the obtained solid was filtered off, washed with ethanol and dried under vacuum to afford hydrazone hydrochloride 1 (95.94 g) in 90 % yield as a light brown solid.

With the help of the nanotechnology - based catalyst which contains multiple reaction sites, the solution of carbon dioxide dissolved in water turned into ethanol with a yield of 63 percent.

Rhodamine 101 in ethanol was used as fluorescence quantum yield standard for both excitation conditions.

The microbes feed on sugar and produce lactic acid, alcohol (ethanol), and carbon dioxide, yielding a fermented carbonated beverage.

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.

Sunlight - illuminated particles can also drive H2O - ethanol distillation, yielding fractions significantly richer in ethanol content than simple thermal distillation.

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.

However, the ethanol concentration yielded from a cellulosic ethanol process tends to be significantly lower than the concentration obtained in a conventional ethanol production.

Projects must demonstrate economically competitive yields and lower GHG potential than Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways for corn ethanol or soy biodiesel.

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.

While Q Microbe is not a GMO — it is a naturally occurring anaerobe that lives under the soil — the company is confident that the patents it is pursuing on the use of the microbe for ethanol production will yield a valuable intellectual property portfolio.

Ethanol can be extracted, with varying degrees of complexity, from all three main components of corn: the endosperm, the germ, and the fiber — the latter two yielding cellulosic eEthanol can be extracted, with varying degrees of complexity, from all three main components of corn: the endosperm, the germ, and the fiber — the latter two yielding cellulosic ethanolethanol.

The process is able to yield more than 100 gallons of ethanol per ton of dry biomass.

«When hemp is legalized, land grant universities across the nation will develop cultivars suitable to different growing regions to enhance yield and explore innovative uses such as cellulosic ethanol.»

Almost all of this derives from corn, with one bushel of corn yielding about 2.7 gallons of ethanol and about 28 % of the U.S. corn crop going toward ethanol production.

This is the best case scenario for corn ethanol — current yield per acre projected to 2030 — without planting any additional corn acreage:

A new study shows that burning crops such as corn and switchgrass to create electricity to power electric vehicles would actually yield more transportation miles than turning those crops into ethanol.

The National Commission on Energy Policy reported in December that, if fleet mileage in the U.S. rises to 40 mpg — somewhat below the current European Union fleet average for new vehicles of 42 mpg and well below the current Japanese average of 47 mpg - then as switchgrass yields improve modestly to around 10 tons / acre it would take only 30 million acres of land to produce sufficient cellulosic ethanol to fuel half the U.S. passenger fleet.

The company says the process improves yields and the economics of cellulosic ethanol, which to date have been decidedly grim.

Hemp grown for both seed and biomass has a stalk yield of up to 3.5 tons per acre, which would make it an economical source of cellulose for ethanol production.

Switchgrass ethanol, though, can yield 540 percent more energy than is required to produce it, the new study says.

First, their list of future - leaning companies yielded up an intriguing census of the exotic segments and niches that look ready to create the next low - carbon economy: concentrated solar systems, smart grid applications, cellulosic ethanol production, synthetic genomics, algae biodiesel, carbon - negative cement.

By displacing gasoline with ethanol, we are displacing geo - political risk with yield risk, and historical corn yields have been about twice as volatile as oil imports.

The chart demonstrates that a 400,000 bbl / d ethanol shortfall could have been covered in 2011 had gasoline yields been just 1.8 percentage points higher, from 45 % to 46.8 %.

«pasture and range land, 587 million acres (25.9 percent); cropland, 442 million acres» http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/EIB14/ 442 million acres of cropland would yield 177 billion gallons of ethanol (at 400 gallons of EtOH / acre), compared to the current consumption of gasoline of ~ 140 billion gallons.

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