Sentences with phrase «gallons of ethanol»

He estimated that a typical hectare of rainforest with 200 tons of harvestable biomass could yield 15,000 gallons of ethanol once cellulosic technology is commercial.

Aimed at reducing U.S. reliance on foreign oil, the Renewable Fuels Standard, or RFS, would require 13.2 billion gallons of ethanol to be made from corn this year.

Argonne Nat» l Labs did an analysis and found the use of 6.5 billion gallons of ethanol in the US in 2007 reduced greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 10 million tons and that E85 alone contributes to a 20 % reduction in ozone forming pollution and a 30 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

Now, sludge is about 25 percent solids, so we can surmise that there is about 61 tons of Recyllose in there, which in Qteros» yield range gives us about 7,320 - 8,235 gallons of ethanol per month, or just south of 100,000 gallons per year.

Qteros says that it can produce 120 - 135 gallons of ethanol per ton of Recyllose.

Renewable Energy World reports that, according to preliminary estimates, Agave tequilana weber could yield up to 2,000 gallons of ethanol per acre per year.

BlueFire brags that using its Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology, it will be able to convert cellulosic waste into 3.2 million gallons of ethanol per year.

Which means for the US as a whole, assuming great implementation of course, that's 2 billion gallons of ethanol.

You make about 5 billion gallons of ethanol, but use 140 billion gallons of gas.

«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.

It will reduce the 2014 mandated requirement from 18.15 billion gallons of ethanol to about 15 billion gallons.

As a result, we exported 1.2 billion gallons of ethanol in 2011.

These vehicles consume roughly 140 Billion gallons of gasoline, 60 Billion gallons of diesel fuel, and 9 Billion gallons of ethanol every year.

That would mean a need of around 1.3 billion gallons of ethanol per year.

If CAFE drops gasoline demand from 140 billion gallons per year to 100 billion gallons, and the RFS requires 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, the current blend of E10 (gasoline with 10 percent ethanol) will need to be increased to E40 nationwide.

The United States is using 40 million acres of cropland (Iowa plus New Jersey) and 45 % of its corn crop to produce 14 billion gallons of ethanol annually.

It uses a saturated salt electrolyte, and, according to their calculations, the system would be capable of generating 15.27 million gallons of ethanol per year per square kilometre.

So at 100 % conversion efficiency that's 2250 gallons of ethanol per acre per day or 820,000 gallons per year per acre.

The corn crop in the US will help to supply the required 18 billion gallons of ethanol in 2016, which will add to the strain of devoting more environmental resources to produce corn.

As gasoline prices in the United States quickly climbed to $ 3 a gallon, the conversion of a $ 2 bushel of corn, which can be distilled into 2.8 gallons of ethanol, became highly profitable.

The Chen - Xu Method produces about 2.85 gallons of ethanol for every bushel of corn processed, GCC reports.

In 2006 the US produced 4.855 billion gallons of ethanol.

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.

Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands («CMT») will supply BlueFire's Fulton, Mississippi project with all of the feedstock required to produce approximately 19 - million gallons of ethanol per year from locally sourced cellulosic materials such as wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings and urban wood waste such as construction waste, storm debris, land clearing; or manufactured wood waste from furniture manufacturing.

By 2012, Coskata envisions commercial production of 50 — 60 million gallons of ethanol per year, made by gasification of approximately 1,500 dry tons of biomass per day.

= 26 Billion Plus gallons of ethanol — just from cobs and stover.

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.

Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.

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

The Iowa State study estimates that extending the VEETC would induce additional blending of 680 million gallons of ethanol, costing taxpayers almost $ 7.00 per extra gallon in 2011.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration reports that only 20,000 gallons of ethanol was produced from non-food, «cellulosic» sources in 2012.

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

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).

First, 8 billion gallons of ethanol will do almost nothing to reduce our oil imports.

I believe the mandate from the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 is to use 35 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022.

The RFS calls for more than 30 billion gallons of ethanol in 10 years, half of that coming from cellulose.

for example, someone from the ethanol lobby had a letter in the times pointing to some 300 000 000 (million) gallons of ethanol for road fuel produced i a recent year.

EPA recently revised its cellulosic target for 2013 from a proposed 14 million gallons of ethanol - equivalent to a final requirement of 6 million gallons (Greenwire, Aug. 6).

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

That same quarter acre would produce 40 bushels of corn — 100 gallons of ethanol, worth maybe $ 300.

Biorefineries produce about 15 billion gallons of ethanol a year.

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.»

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.

«We produce 70 gallons of ethanol per ton of waste,» says engineer Arnold Klann, BlueFire's president and CEO.

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.

Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.

Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.

Last year about 1.6 billion bushels of corn were fermented in the United States to produce 4 billion gallons of ethanol, double the amount for 2001.

If we could find an effective way to convert it, corn residue could provide another 20 billion gallons of ethanol by around 2040, according to a recent report from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

The plant opened for business in November 1994, with the capacity to make 15 million gallons of ethanol a year.