Sentences with phrase «into fuel ethanol»
The conversion and commercialization of cellulose inputs into fuel ethanol is a significant technology obstacle to the growth of the ethanol industry as a mainstream fuel.
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And Brazil, arguably the world leader in making ethanol from crops, has been turning sugar cane into fuel for nearly three decades — a process that is 30 % cheaper than corn - based production in the U.S.
A gasoline provider could blend ethanol into their fuel to make it less carbon - intensive, for instance — something Canadian fuel providers already do.
A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.
Seeking to find alternatives to ethanol as a fuel, the study established optimal pre-treatment conditions for turning straw lignocelluloses and barley starch into fermentable sugars that -LSB-...]
Unlike other solid - to - liquid - fuel processes such as cornstarch into ethanol, this one will accept almost any carbon - based feedstock.
By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.
Currently more than 40 per cent of the US corn crop goes into producing ethanol, which is mostly mixed with gasoline to fuel conventional cars.
Blending ethanol brewed from corn into gasoline stocks is not bringing down fuel prices, an M.I.T. study finds
A gadget built around an automotive fuel injector transforms ethanol, or grain alcohol, into hydrogen gas, a team of chemical engineers reports in this week's issue of Science.
Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.
Commercial - scale efforts have existed for over a hundred years that convert corn, sugar cane and other plant - based substances into a wide array of products, ranging from fuel such as corn - based ethanol to ingredients in many consumer goods, such as soap and detergents.
The platform, which uses microbes to glean ethanol from glycerol and has the added benefit of cleaning up the wastewater, will allow producers to reincorporate the ethanol and the water into the fuel - making process, said Gemma Reguera, MSU microbiologist and one of the co-authors.
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.
«Fueled with mostly ethanol, these race cars burn more fuel cleanly and release mainly carbon dioxide and water vapor into the air,» said Mathur.
«The blend - stock can be mixed into gasoline at higher concentrations than ethanol's current limit of 10 percent; plus it can be added to diesel and jet fuel.
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.
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.
Research into a next - generation fuel — cellulosic ethanol from sugarcane — may have played a critical role in shaping the deal.
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.
Such cellulosic ethanol from native plants would also require technological breakthroughs to efficiently convert plant leaves, stems and other inedible parts into fuel.
Once they are extracted, the sugars are fermented into an alcohol — like ethanol or butanol — that can then be used as a fuel.
The biofuel industry is built around the idea that turning plants into ethanol creates a carbon - neutral fuel cycle.
In a new twist to waste - to - fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory [ORNL] have developed an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol.
This is one of the first steps in converting complex plant materials into simple forms that can be fermented into ethanol for fuel.
«It can be used in existing engines and transported in existing pipelines,» whereas some current biofuels, such as ethanol, do not fit as well into today's commercial fuel infrastructure, he said.
These vehicles have an extra sensor that in layman's terms shines a light through the fuel into an eye that can determine the amount the light «flexes» as it passes through the fuel and can adjust the fuel / air ratio of the engine according to the amount of ethanol in the fuel.
America's corn farmers convinced the government that turning corn into ethanol and creating a fuel called E85 was our path to energy independence.
Just as the government requires ethanol to be blended into gasoline, they also require or promote the blending of renewable biomass components into diesel fuels.
By federal and state regulation, nearly all gasoline sold by retailers in the US has up to 10 % ethanol blended into it to comply with the US Renewable Fuel Standards as part of the Energy Independence and Security Act.
The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.
What people fail to realize is that Brazil's economic and energy boom is not being fueled by ethanol alone, but by vast oil deposits they are aggresivly extracting (the reason one George Soros invested 900 million in Petrobas, isn't it nice that he gives money to people who wish to restrict american production but pours hundreds of millions into foreign oil companies.).
Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.
Here in Michigan, you're actually a step ahead of the game with your first - ever commercial cellulosic ethanol plant, which will lead the way by turning wood into clean - burning fuel.
Market - based principles should guide policymakers away from top - down, government - mandated ventures such as the flawed Renewable Fuel Standard — which could force higher ethanol blend fuels into the national supply, potentially damaging vehicle engines and saddling consumers with repair costs.
The production of ethanol for fuel in the US uses huge amounts of land, some of which was brought back into production for this purpose, large amounts of energy to the point there is probably a net loss, major water consumption, and little savings in net CO2 emissions (which are plant food anyway.)
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:
In 2007, Congress set annual statutory volumes for ethanol, divided into two main categories: total renewable fuel and «advanced» biofuels.
• Since 2007, the RFS, which requires fuel retailers to blend corn ethanol into the gasoline they sell, has saddled American motorists with more than $ 10 billion per year in extra fuel costs above what they would have paid if they had purchased gasoline alone.
The fossil fuel inputs into ethanol production are also largely non-liquid (natural gas and coal).
Canada currently maintains a 5 % domestic ethanol mandate on use while the U.S. is working towards a target of 136 billion liters of biofuels blended into transportation fuels by 2022.
Ethanol is now blended into almost all gasoline sold here and accounts for roughly 10 % of total U.S. motor fuel.
Two ads have been running heavily in the Washington, D.C., market and in some other markets in advance of a Nov. 30 deadline for the EPA to finalize requirements for the total volume of ethanol to be put into gasoline, and for other renewable fuels.
The above figures can not be proven true but the result seems to indicate that ethanol from plants is too costly now in terms of CO2 release when alternate non fuel growth on the land is factored into the equations.
The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban ethanol fuel content over ten percent.
Plan 4 is the sneaky plan to increase the ethanol content of gasoline to the point where it will destroy many old cars and force people into buying new cars that the EPA considers green, such as the Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius, Nissan Leaf, or at the very least, more fuel - efficient gasoline powered cars that pollute less and will run on E15.
If the ethanol mandate in the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to Fuel Standard (RFS) required more, then you're running into the ethanol «blend wall» — that is, to satisfy the RFS, refiners would have to blend fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to fuel with higher ethanol content than millions of vehicles are designed to use.
Biofuel is bioenergy converted into a liquid fuel such as ethanol or biodiesel, but biomass can also be converted into gaseous fuels via biological or chemical processes such as digestion and gasification.
Instead of harnessing the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide into plant food, artificial photosynthesis seeks to use the same starting ingredients to produce chemical precursors commonly used in synthetic products as well as fuels like ethanol.
NASCAR racing team owner Richard Childress has an op - ed in the Charlotte Observer this week in which he renders a full - throttle endorsement of E15 gasoline and the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supFuel Standard (RFS), the federal program that requires more and more ethanol be blended into the nation's fuel supfuel supply.