Sentences with phrase «levels of ethanol»

A new national API poll shows that American voters have serious concerns about the Renewable Fuel Standard and its mandates for ever - increasing levels of ethanol in the nation's fuel supply.

Instead of attacking research it doesn't like, the ethanol industry should welcome information that could help more and more auto manufacturers adapt future vehicles to accommodate higher levels of ethanol.

«We're at the point where refiners are being pressured to put unsafe levels of ethanol in gasoline, which could damage vehicles, harm consumers and wreak havoc on our economy.»

Testing by the Coordinating Research Council (CRC), which has been the gold standard in fuels and vehicle research for the better part of a century, determined that millions of vehicles on the road today could suffer engine damage from using fuels containing higher levels of ethanol than for which they were designed.

The yeast used in dough can form high levels of ethanol inside dogs which can be potentially fatal if enough is consumed.

[5] One study that focused on hospital employees found that over 30 % exhaled low levels of ethanol just one minute after using hand sanitizer.

One possible explanation for why mortality rates are higher for non-drinkers may be that low levels of ethanol (alcohol) in your bloodstream helps prevent the formation of formaldehyde from dietary methanol.

However, if the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) requirements continue to be implemented, our nation could exceed this level of ethanol in the fuel mix.

When EPA green - lighted E15 use, it knew E15 vehicle testing was ongoing but decided not to wait for the results — most likely to raise the permissible concentration level of ethanol in fuels so that greater volumes could be used, as required by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).

Not exact matches

Tinctures are made by soaking chopped, puréed, or gently bruised roots, leaves, and herbs in a combination of high - proof alcohol (frequently ethanol at a manufacturer level) and water.

First, a review and summary of the literature on the biological mechanisms by which alcohol affects the risk of breast cancer showed that alcohol affects breast - cancer risk through the alteration of hormone levels and the associated biological pathways, carcinogens generated during the metabolism of ethanol, and the inhibition of the one - carbon metabolism pathway.

At MIT, scientists have engineered a new yeast strain that can survive in high levels of sugar and ethanol, producing 50 percent more ethanol than its natural cousins.

A Northwestern University study by an economist and a chemist reports that when fuel prices drove residents of São Paulo, Brazil, to mostly switch from ethanol to gasoline in their flexible - fuel vehicles, local ozone levels dropped 20 percent.

When residents of São Paulo chose gasoline over ethanol to fuel their vehicles, levels of ozone actually decreased, according to a Northwestern study.

He developed an innovative microdialysis approach that allows the in vivo sampling of lipid signaling molecules in the brain (including endocannabinoids) and has demonstrated that voluntary self - administration of ethanol, heroin, and cocaine produces distinct drug - and region - specific changes in brain endocannabinoid levels.

A massive expansion of land use for sugar cane growth in Brazil, and a subsequent increase in ethanol production with the feedstock could reduce global carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector by up to 86 percent of 2014 levels, according to research published in the October issue of the journal Nature Climate Change.

In fact, the ethanol extract of sesame seeds were shown to be incredibly effective at reducing prostate weight and testosterone levels in the tested rats.

In the present study castrated rats feeding on diet containing 20 % flaxseed powder or given oral administration of petroleum ether or ethanol extract of flaxseed showed significant reduction in prostate weight and testosterone level with different degrees.

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Doug Fehan: «The performance level of E85 compared to gasoline, when we look at a gallon - to - gallon comparison, there is about 20 percent less energy in a gallon of ethanol than in a gallon of gasoline.

A team at the University of Birmingham reports that a blend of 33 % v / v of butanol in EN228 commercial gasoline containing 5 % of ethanol (B33) reduces GDI (gasoline direct injection) engine - out carbonaceous emissions, while maintaining similar levels of NOx emissions when compared to standard gasoline combustion at low and medium... Read more →

All trim levels of the Focus will be powered by a 2.0 - liter four - cylinder engine that can run on either a gasoline or E85 ethanol - blended fuel.

The RFS, which requires increasingly large amounts of biofuels — mostly corn - based ethanol — to be blended into gasoline each year, will come to the forefront again when EPA finalizes 2014 biofuels levels by June...

If current levels of crop waste were used to produce biogas, 500 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol could be produced every year.

It's practically an entry - level badge for wonkhood on left and right to understand that ethanol mandates are environmentally damaging and economically inefficient and a textbook example of misguided environmental policy captured by special interests.

And a report last year found that the vast majority of cars on the road were not built to handle higher ethanol levels.

At the federal level this means the tax credits that have been in place for more than 20 years, encouraging the growth of wind, solar, ethanol, and other renewable energy sources.

Investment in biofuels — once the poster child of renewables — fell 26 percent in 2013, to its lowest level since before George W. Bush kick - started the corn - to - ethanol race in the U.S. almost a decade ago.

Almost all of these projects differ from the ethanol being blended into the US gasoline supply in that they are made from inedible feedstocks, which sidesteps one of the critiques often leveled at biofuels: that they compete in with crops raised for people or livestock, driving up food prices.

That's what we draw from EPA's requirements for levels of corn ethanol and other renewable fuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supply.

As noted previously on this site (here and here), Vilsack and the RFA tout a study by Iowa State University's Center for Agricultural Research and Development (CARD), which concluded that if ethanol production had remained at year 2000 levels, the U.S. motor fuel supply would have been billions of gallons smaller and, thus, significantly pricier in 2010 and 2011.

In 2015 hearing testimony, the Society of Independent Gasoline Marketers of America / National Association of Convenience Stores told Congress: «To date, very few retailers selling mid-to high - level ethanol - gasoline blends such as E15 or E85 have seen substantial sales of these products.

Bloomberg.com is reporting comments which they are spinning as indicating as Obama being willing to continue similar levels of support for ethanol as the Bush administration.

The 107 million tons of grain that went to U.S. ethanol distilleries in 2009 was enough to feed 330 million people for one year at average world consumption levels.

At this level, ethanol would still replace only approximately 10 % of the volume of gasoline used, and it is questionable whether we would ever want to shift so much of our corn production to ethanol.

Now, the ethanol lobby has managed to do on the Federal level what they couldn't in California, convince Congress to put industry interests ahead of the environment.

For perspective, the estimated 114 million tons of grain used to produce ethanol in 2009 in the United States is the food supply for 370 million people at average world grain consumption levels.

At this production level, corn - based ethanol would replace about 10 % of the volume (or about 7.2 % of the energy content) of the US gasoline supply.

The thing is that at some level, the success of Brazil's ethanol program depends on the productivity of its sugar plantations and on the availability of cheap (almost slave) labor.

The level of gasoline consumption limits the amount of ethanol that may be used in the gasoline pool at any fixed blending level, such as the 10 % ethanol blend (E10) that is predominant in the current U.S. gasoline supply.