Sentences with phrase «into ethanol»

The yeast easily converts the sugar into ethanol (step 1 of the fermentation process).

Then they wait for the hungry bacteria to turn sugars in the corn into ethanol, a type of alcohol.

The method would also reduce greenhouse gas emissions more than turning the crops into ethanol and using that ethanol in vehicles with internal combustion engines.

A number of companies are also trying to convert municipal solid waste into ethanol using a range of processes.

This reflects the reality that approximately 40 percent of the corn crop now goes into ethanol production, a dramatic rise since the first ethanol mandates were put in place in 2005.

Does it help that the corn is much more likely to be destined to be made into ethanol than high fructose corn syrup?

I will take a look at your link before I finish, but the more I look into ethanol the worse it is for the environment and the economy.

Now correct for the energy inputs into the ethanol.

These can be burned in a turbine, but in the presence of the right catalyst, they will instead combine into ethanol.

It really does seem like people will try to turn just about anything into ethanol these days.

These fluids may help wean us off fossil fuels by efficiently preparing biomass before it is made into ethanol.

Qteros» core technology is based on the Q - Microbe ™, which converts biomass into ethanol in a single step.

This is one of the first steps in converting complex plant materials into simple forms that can be fermented into ethanol for fuel.

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.

Corn gluten meal is a byproduct obtained when corn is processed into ethanol for your car or corn syrup.

Then it is significantly cooled from that high temperature to a lower temperature for yeast fermentation, only to be re-heated when it is later distilled into ethanol.

Uses a unique type of microbe to convert biomass into ethanol in one step, potentially replacing a multistep process that uses expensive enzymes to break down cellulose.

The biofuel industry is built around the idea that turning plants into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.

For maize grown in Iowa, the energy conversion rate is around 0.3 percent into biomass and 0.15 percent into ethanol.

The technologies to convert these cellulosic materials into ethanol exist, but the cost of producing cellulosic ethanol is close to double that of grain - based ethanol.

New machinery developed by Biorefining Inc. in Minnesota precisely breaks kernels into their constituent elements, which may convert more of the starch into ethanol at a lower cost, while also freeing up more of the valuable coproducts like corn oil.

To boost efficiency, they are ditching the catalyst entirely and enlisting bacteria to ferment syngas into ethanol.

Fast - growing sugarcane on highly fertile land in the tropics converts only around 0.5 percent of solar radiation into sugar, and only around 0.2 percent ultimately into ethanol.

More than 1 million jobs are found in the biofuels industry growing and processing a variety of feedstocks into ethanol and biodiesel.

The combination of population growth, rising affluence, and the conversion of one third of the U.S. grain harvest into ethanol to fuel cars is expanding the world demand for grain by a record 43 million tons per year, double the annual growth of a decade ago.

«When I first looked into the ethanol industry, there was this promise that the cellulose technology was just a few years away,» Lunz recalled.

After dissolving plant biomass by the novel solvent, carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion, hydrolysis and fermentation were consecutively carried out in one reaction pot for conversion into ethanol.

An even bigger blow has been the U.S. decision to subsidize conversion of maize into ethanol to blend with gasoline.

Unlike other solid - to - liquid - fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon - based feedstock.

This problem can become even bigger for biofuels like corn ethanol that emit greenhouse gases at every step, from laughing gas emanating from corn fields after fertilization to the CO2 from the fermentation of kernels into ethanol.

That's because fermenting corn into ethanol delivers less liquid fuel energy for internal combustion engines than does burning the kernels to generate power for electric motors.

This is then fermented by yeast into ethanol.

The most popular examples from crops are turning corn or sugarcane into ethanol, or turning palm oil into biodiesel.

But building a system to turn any carbon into ethanol is one thing; finding a steady diet for such anomnivore is another.

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.

Inside the vat, enzymes and yeast — with a leavening of antibiotics for safety — digest the organic gruel into ethanol.

First, the researchers dropped the flies into an ethanol vapor - infused inebriometer, a long vertical tube with platforms on which flies can land.

«There was some interest in converting syngas into ethanol during the first oil crisis back in the 70s,» said Ames Lab chemist and Chemical and Biological Science Program Director Victor Lin.

The bacteria do their work first, after which the yeasts kick in to break down any remaining lactose into ethanol and carbon dioxide.

Agriculture prices are rising as well, partly due to increased demand, and partly due to the diversion of some of the corn supply into ethanol.

Contrast that to the government pouring billions into ethanol production because of warming hysteria.