Sentences with phrase «of ethanol refineries»

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An ethanol and biodiesel refinery to be built in Innisfail promised to be the largest of its kind in North America.
Colorado - based Range Fuels received an $ 80 million loan guarantee from the USDA to help fund its refinery, which began production by making methanol instead of ethanol last year.
Preliminary ORNL analysis in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado shows the catalytic technology could be retrofitted into existing bio-alcohol refineries at various stages of ethanol purification.
«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.
Monroe Energy, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines that operates the Trainer refinery complex in Pennsylvania, said the EPA's decision not to cut 2013 biofuel targets did not take into account that companies might need to carry over some ethanol credits for use in 2014, when it finalized the 2013 targets.
In the last few years, some refineries began converting the inedible parts of corn plants into ethanol, Chundawat said.
The EPA allows small oil refineries to apply for hardship exemptions from the RFS ethanol blending requirements, with «small» meaning capacity 10,000 tons of biomass per day, producing at least 20,000 barrels of fuel per day.
Capturing the nearly pure stream of CO2 emitted from corn ethanol refinery fermentation processes is cheaper however, and footing the bill for the added costs associated with carbon capture can be further offset by taking advantage of the market for CO2 availed by EOR.
Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures to deforest that come from population growth, rising affluence, the construction of ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries, and the fast - growing use of paper.
Current estimates, which I documented in the afore - mentioned article, put the cost of a biomass gasification plant at about 7 times the per barrel cost of a conventional oil refinery or grain ethanol plant, and double the costs of a coal - to - liquids plant.
A successful deforestation ban may require a ban on the construction of additional biodiesel refineries and ethanol distilleries.
As of mid-2007, growth in investment in ethanol and biodiesel was losing momentum as feedstock prices rose for both ethanol distilleries and biodiesel refineries and as soaring grain prices sounded alarm bells for food consumers everywhere.
While higher commodity prices and cooperatively owned ethanol refineries could be a boon to independent farmers, unregulated ethanol industry growth will further concentrate agribusiness, threatening the livelihood of rural communities.
BIOFUELS: An overhaul of the nation's Renewable Fuel Standard will include fewer waivers for small refineries and allow ethanol exports to count toward federal biofuels quotas, according to a source.
They see small - scale cellulosic refineries located near switchgrass grown on empty fields, beside pulp paper mill plants, or linked to municipal landfills, producing ethanol and using leftover biomass for co-generation of heat.
By the time you harvest Brazilian sugarcane by hand, burn it for production power, burn what's left over in the field, ship it from refineries to the dock, load it onto ocean going ships burning bunker, the dirtiest fuel available, then ship it thousands of miles to terminals in California and distribute it to retail outlets — It's Not going to be environmentally superior to shipping American ethanol from the Corn Belt.
Today, amid an anemic economy and joblessness far worse than official government figures admit, President Obama balks at approving the Keystone XL pipeline, cancels leasing and drilling on federal lands, tells our budget - sequestered military to buy $ 26 to $ 67 - per - gallon ship and jet fuel, punishes refineries for not buying cellulosic ethanol that doesn't exist, and happily lets EPA shut down coal - fired power plants and kill countless thousands of mining, utility and other jobs.
Two years later, VeraSun (VSE), the ethanol producer that had been planning to build a 110 - million - gallon - per - year ethanol biorefinery in Reynolds, says it will suspend construction of the refinery due to current market conditions.
Ending deforestation may require a ban on the construction of additional biodiesel refineries and ethanol distilleries.
Though, you'll have to get off your high horse and start pushing to get more of the ethanol and biodiesel refineries in your state.
This spring, Pacific Ethanol Inc. began construction of what I believe will be the first ethanol refinery in Oregon, according to an article in Sustainable Industries JournalEthanol Inc. began construction of what I believe will be the first ethanol refinery in Oregon, according to an article in Sustainable Industries Journalethanol refinery in Oregon, according to an article in Sustainable Industries Journal (SIJ).
Eventually, enough refineries will go out of business, and use up enough reserves, to allow the price of ethanol to climb (because its use is mandated, the price is not locked to global oil prices).
Many corn ethanol refineries have been operating in the red this year because the price of corn is so high.
Furthermore, by leaving 35 % water in the ethanol at the refinery, up to 60 % of the cost to distill it is saved.
A «remarkably small operational adjustment» in refineries» product mix — a 1.8 % increase in gasoline production — could have covered an ethanol shortfall of 400,000 bbl / d in 2011.
Two of those projects, at an ethanol refinery in Decatur, IL and a municipal solid waste incinerator in Oslo, will help demonstrate the concept of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (known as «BECCS» for short), which climate scientists see as a prime candidate for delivering large - scale carbon removal in the future.
At issue is whether to suspend a five - year - old federal mandate requiring more ethanol in gasoline each year, a policy that has diverted almost half of the domestic corn supply from animal feedlots to ethanol refineries, driven up corn prices and plantings and created a desperate competition for corn as drought grips the nation's farm belt.
As corn prices have risen, refineries have scaled back production, idled dozens of plants and sold ethanol inventories.
Ethanol and biodeisel will also soon be made from algae, which will be grown on (among other things) the waste products of existing corn ethanol refineries: CO2, waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse efEthanol and biodeisel will also soon be made from algae, which will be grown on (among other things) the waste products of existing corn ethanol refineries: CO2, waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse efethanol refineries: CO2, waste heat, production power exhaust, and corn rinse effluent.
Expand Locally - Owned Biofuel Refineries: Less than 10 percent of new ethanol production today is from farmer - owned rRefineries: Less than 10 percent of new ethanol production today is from farmer - owned refineriesrefineries.
Directing pipe fitting and welding projects as foreman including a project with Gem Industrial involving the remodeling and repair of a new ethanol plant refinery's sulfur unit.
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