Panda Ethanol is reportedly canceling a 100 - million -
gallon ethanol plant it had in the works in Wallace, Neb., while RAE is said to have shuttered plans for a plant near Gothenburg, Neb., earlier this month.
Not exact matches
The
plant opened for business in November 1994, with the capacity to make 15 million
gallons of
ethanol a year.
Together the two
plants would produce, at best, 22 million
gallons of
ethanol a year by using sulfuric acid to break the lignocellulose bonds and then burning the leftover lignin to power fermentation of the cellulose into
ethanol.
Municipalities are already fighting over water supplies with the booming biofuels industry: citizens in the Illinois towns of Champaign and Urbana recently opposed a local
ethanol plant's petition to withdraw two million
gallons a day from the local aquifer to produce 100 million
gallons of
ethanol a year.
Yet RangeFuels» fancy new
ethanol plant, which will eventually pump out 100 million
gallons of fuel a year, will feed mostly on wood chips.
«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion
gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S.
plant to make next - generation
ethanol commercially.
One example isPanda
Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass
plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million
gallons ofethanol per year.
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 renewable fuel standard passed by Congress calls for 100 million
gallons of cellulosic
ethanol in 2010, but the actual production capacity from experimental
plants is only about 3 to 4 million
gallons, he said.
The Fulton, Miss. project will allow BlueFire to use green and wood wastes available in the region as feedstock for the
ethanol plant, which is designed to produce approximately 19 - million
gallons of
ethanol per year.
Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per -
gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic
ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power
plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.
This summer, expensive and rare corn has left 26
ethanol plants idle — some for more than a year — removing 1.5 billion
gallons of production, according to the industry trade group, the Renewable Fuels Association.
Each
ethanol plant will have a production capacity of five million
gallons per year (5 MGY) of fuel - grade
ethanol.
Oil Palm produces ~ 500
gallons / acre of biodiesel, and it's a perennial — less fuel for plowing &
planting, and squeezing the oil out is less energy intensive than distilling
ethanol.
Not biodiesel, conventional diesel fuel: The
plant will have a capacity of more than 10,000
gallons per year and will, using synthetic biology, reengineer microbes so that yeast can ferment sugar to produce hydrocarbons instead of
ethanol.
Now, on the site of an old cabbage farm 9 miles from Medina, New York Energy is building an 87 million dollar
ethanol plant to turn 20 million bushels of corn into 50 million
gallons of fuel.