Sentences with phrase «for ethanol use»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

This particular type of black fungus is common near distilleries because it uses ethanol as a source of energy for growth.

(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 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.

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).

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.

We've used yeast to convert plant cellulose and starch into biofuels like ethanol for decades; however, the process still isn't efficient, and scientists are genetically altering yeast to change that.

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.

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.

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.

«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.»

The remaining sugar (for plants with less than 20 % oil) could be sold or used to produce ethanol.

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.

For example, while with methanol the system is biphasic, using ethanol involves a homogeneous reaction medium and single liquid phase.»

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.»

When existing corn is used for ethanol, what comes out of the tailpipe doesn't change and what is taken out of the atmosphere doesn't change either because the corn would be grown anyway.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop.

The rest can still be fed into the corn supply chain to make ethanol or grits or any of the other products corn is already used for.

By using a combination of crop growth, hydrological, carbon and nitrogen cycle models, researchers found that the estimated land suitable for bioenergy grasses — particularly Miscanthus, the most productive bioenergy crop — is limited, despite its relatively high biomass productivity and low water consumption per unit of ethanol.

«So alcoholic drinks are an ideal model for industrial ethanol fermentation broths — ethanol for fuel is essentially made using a brewing process.

The report added that «a biorefinery that produces 100 million gallons of ethanol per year, for example, would use the equivalent of the water supply for a town of about 5,000 people.»

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.

We're learning now that not all ethanol is the same and that there may be better uses for corn than fueling cars.

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 engines.

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.

Monroe Energy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that operates the Trainer refinery complex in Pennsylvania, said the EPA's decision not to cut 2013 biofuel targets did not take into account that companies might need to carry over some ethanol credits for use in 2014, when it finalized the 2013 targets.

Additionally, ethylene and ethanol could serve as the building blocks for a range of consumer goods, and CO2 - derived formic acid could be used by the pharmaceutical industry or as a fuel in fuel cells.

Since transportation and storage of biomass add to the overall production cost if the materials aren't located near the biofuels facility, agricultural areas are the best location for renewable biomass to be used in ethanol production.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

Corn ethanol made from irrigated crops, for example, can use more than 1,000 times more water than oil refining, according to calculations by Sandia National Laboratory.

By 2016 about 43 percent of thatarea will be used to harvest corn for ethanol.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

Khanna says that a price on carbon would be one way to equalize the cost of using gasoline and ethanol for consumers when filling up their tank.

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.

Cellulose is difficult to break down and ferment, but several facilities in the United States are on the verge of making commercial cellulosic ethanol — for example, by using specialist enzymes to break down the long - chain cellulose molecules — and Brazil doesn't want to be left behind.

For tissue samples, lung or liver tissue was homogenized in a 15 mL Eppendorf tube using a disposable microtube pestle (Eppendorf, San Diego, CA) and scalpel, and RNA extraction was then performed using TRIzol LS (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), followed by isopropanol precipitation and two washes in 70 % ethanol.

The Obama administration made a concerted effort to transform the U.S. transportation system with battery startups, regulations that ramp up the use of cellulosic ethanol and other biofuels, and a near doubling of fuel efficiency requirements for light - duty cars and trucks.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers have developed a catalyst that easily converts bio-based ethanol to a widely used industrial chemical, paving the way for more environmentally friendly, bio-based plastics and products.

For example, zebrafish are extensively used to study the effects of drugs of abuse and ethanol administration [33]--[36].

LanzaTech has partnered with Global Fortune 500 Companies and others to use this technology, including facilities that can each produce 100,000 gallons per year of ethanol, and a number of chemical ingredients for the manufacture of plastics.