Sentences with phrase «of ethanol produced»

Approximately 4 gallons of water are used for every gallon of ethanol produced.

The use of ethanol produced from corn in the U.S. and sugar cane in Brazil has given birth to the commercialization of an alternative fuel that is coming to show substantial promise, particularly as new feedstocks are developed.

In fact, many of the health problems from abusing alcohol are caused indirectly by glutathione deficiency, since the main by - product of ethanol produced in liver is acetaldehyde and glutathione has to detoxify that.

«The amount of ethanol produced by chemical catalysis is around 70 or 80 gallons perton,» says Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer for Coskata, located in Warrenville, Illinois.

Not exact matches

It will initially produce methanol and later ethanol — enough each year to fill the tanks of 400,000 cars using a five per cent ethanol blend.

The nation's energy policy calls for so much ethanol that it consumes 40 % of the corn produced in the United States.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

Later this year the company is scheduled to finish a $ 200 million - plus facility in Nevada, Iowa, that will produce 30 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using corn residue from nearby farms.

Our petro - industrial civilization produces and consumes a seemingly diverse suite of energies: oil, coal, ethanol, hydroelectricity, gasoline, geothermal heat, hydrogen, solar power, propane, uranium, wind, wood, dung.

In 2008, subsidies to produce corn ethanol reduced the amount of corn available for food.

Here's another fun fact: according to Wikipedia (who's never wrong), the average human digestive system produces approximately 3 grams of ethanol per day (a little less than a third of a beer)... completely irrelevant to an article on intermittent fasting and alcohol, but interesting nonetheless.

In addition there are versions of corn that can be grown where the stalk and leaves have been modified to produce the material for ethanol while the grain can be harvested for food.

Another example is a distillery producing 100kl / d of ethanol.

A pioneer of immunization and food sterilization, Pasteur (below) also experimentally proved in the 1850s that yeasts drove the fermentation process, gobbling sugars to produce ethanol, carbon dioxide and a host of other compounds essential to beer.

After a much - quoted warning that «America is addicted to oil» in this year's State of the Union address, President Bush called for «cutting - edge methods of producing ethanol, not just from corn but from wood chips and stalks or switchgrass.

The first - generation biofuel, industrialized, ethanol, is produced from foodstuffs like maize, and thus poses great concern about a possible future shortage of food.

Fermentation in the presence of the carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion produced 1.4 g / L ethanol, while no ethanol was obtained with the ionic liquid due to its high toxicity.

An acre of switchgrass can produce more than twice as much ethanol as an acre of corn.

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.

With Escherichia coli that can produce ethanol, fermentation ability was examined and revealed to be almost maximal in 0.5 mol / L carboxylate - type liquid zwitterion with a final ethanol concentration of 21 g / L.

She is an honors graduate of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln where she did research on tobacco plants and ethanol - producing bacteria.

«Corn - based ethanol, instead of producing a 20 percent savings [in greenhouse gas emissions], nearly doubles greenhouse emissions over 30 years and increases greenhouse gases for 167 years,» the researchers write.

And unlike the corn used to produce ethanol in the United States, algae do not compete with food for farmland, one of the biggest problems with current biofuels.

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.

Max Shauck, chair of the Baylor Institute for Air Science (who flew an ethanol - powered prop plane at air shows in the 1980s), has converted at least 1,000 such aircraft in Brazil, a country that has weaned itself from foreign oil by embracing ethanol domestically produced from sugarcane.

The study is the second major report this month calling for greater research on the environmental effects of producing ethanol and other renewable transportation fuels.

«We can do this while simultaneously producing from the biomass lignin - free cellulose, which is the basis of ethanol and other liquid fuels.

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.

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

«We found that with a given amount of biomass you could produce more transportation and greenhouse gas offsets with electricity than with ethanol.»

This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop.

«Our method of direct conversion of ethanol offers a pathway to produce suitable hydrocarbon blend - stock that may be blended at a refinery to yield fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel or commodity chemicals,» Narula said.

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.

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.»

After crunching the numbers, Vogel and his colleagues found that ethanol produced from switchgrass yields 540 % of the energy used to grow, harvest, and process it into ethanol.

Biorefineries produce about 15 billion gallons of ethanol a year.

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.

That result contrasts sharply with a controversial study published just over a year ago in Science that suggested that a mixture of prairie grasses farmed with little fertilizer or other inputs would produce a higher net energy yield than ethanol produced from corn (Science, 8 December 2006, p. 1598).

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

Today most ethanol in the United States is made from corn, using an energy - intensive process that may not actually save a lot of fossil fuel, and in any case America can not produce enough ethanol from corn to really matter.

The company can produce more than 100 gallons of fuel per ton based on lab experiments because bacteria make more ethanol: «We aren't producing butanol, propanol, hexanol, octanol, and all the other alcohols,» Bolsen says.

Nine billion gallons of corn ethanol were produced in the United States in 2008, twice as much as in 2006.

According to Richard Bain, a researcher at NREL, the estimated cost of producing a gallon of ethanol stands at $ 2.10 today.

Troubles With Ethanol The U.S. Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 [pdf] set a target to produce 9 billion gallons of biofuel in 2008.

In November researchers at the University of Texas at Austin found that producing corn ethanol consumes 28 gallons of water per mile traveled, whereas conventional petroleum uses 0.15 gallon.

That method could make a difference in cellulosic biofuel plants, which produce ethanol from waste products — corn husks and cobs — rather than edible kernels, a major advance in addressing the tradeoff of using agricultural land to grow corn for fuel rather than for food.

In one case, turning on and off a blue light caused the special yeast to alternate between producing ethanol, a product of normal fermentation, and isobutanol, a chemical that normally would kill yeast at sufficiently high concentration.

Moving forward, the team will continue to work on their device to scale up the production of ethylene as well as employ similar systems to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and propanol.

But the research suggests that even if researchers maximized the capacity to grow biofuels on all marginal lands, «the amount of cellulosic ethanol it could produce is only enough to provide 1.5 percent of U.S. transportation fuel by 2020.»

George Huber, chemical engineer, University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Bright Idea: Produce ethanol or other renewable fuels from biomass that we do not use for food.