Sentences with phrase «of gallons of ethanol»

«A large percentage of the cost of a gallon of ethanol goes toward making enzymes — which are proteins — to degrade the starch and cellulose for fermentation,» Tyo said.

The current price is now roughly 20 times the cost of a gallon of ethanol.

The two men said the cost of a gallon of ethanol could cost as little as $ 1.07 in five years.

Whether or not ethanol is better than gasoline depends on the direct and indirect environmental impacts associated with the production, delivery, and ultimate use of each gallon of ethanol, including any changes in land use.

Not exact matches

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.

That means the total tax on gasoline and ethanol is 27.9 cents per gallon, slightly below the national average gas tax of 29.9 cents per gallon.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 requires the use of 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol by 2012, and the industry is ahead of the target.

The plant opened for business in November 1994, with the capacity to make 15 million gallons of ethanol a year.

Using Patzek's methodology for every aspect of ethanol production save the conversion process itself, a gallon of Corn Plus ethanol consumes less energy than it contains — even before factoring in credit for coproducts.

The biotech companies claim a 30-fold reduction since 2000, from about $ 5.60 per gallon of ethanol to at most 18 cents; NREL puts the cost at 32 cents.

If we could find an effective way to convert it, corn residue could provide another 20 billion gallons of ethanol by around 2040, according to a recent report from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

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.

Finally, the ethanol — 2.7 gallons from a bushel of corn — is cooled into a liquid and denatured with gasoline.

7 So much for recycling: Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons of embalming fluid — formaldehyde, methanol, and ethanol — into the soil each year.

A more realistic, if still optimistic, scenario sketched by the National Corn Growers Association anticipates that corn ethanol production will quadruple to 16 billion gallons by 2015, not quite 7 percent of the likely demand.

Thomas Foust, the biotechnology manager at NREL, says the cost of making ethanol from cellulose has dropped to $ 2.26 a gallon or less.

The goal, however, is $ 1.07 — what NREL and the Energy Department figured was the cost to make a gallon of ethanol from corn kernels at the time NREL made the enzyme pact.

This wrong - headed policy, pushed by an aggressive farm lobby, gives a 51 - cent tax credit for each gallon of ethanol blended into gasoline.

The 2005 Energy Policy Act mandates a minimum of 7.5 billion gallons of domestic renewable - fuel production, which will overwhelmingly be corn - based ethanol, by 2012.

Each day the facility would convert 1,000 tons of wood chips and waste from Georgia's vast pulp and paper industry into 274,000 gallons of ethanol.

Since then, corn ethanol production has more than doubled to about 36.5 million gallons per day — meaning ethanol already is nearly 10 percent of U.S. fuel supply.

Congress in 2007 required that refiners blend 36 billion gallons of ethanol into fuel supply by 2022.

Jeff Lautt, chief executive of POET, said that over the past six years, the company has been able to drive down the cost of making cellulosic ethanol from $ 6 a gallon to $ 3 a gallon.

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.

If you then combine that with E85 fuel, which is 15 percent gasoline and 85 percent ethanol, you just got a 320 - mile - per - gallon SUV because the efficiency times the biofuel saving of oil multiplies.

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

The Obama administration seems to agree, granting $ 786 million in 2009 for biofuels research and setting up the Biofuels Interagency Working Group to study how best to meet the renewable fuel standard mandated by Congress that will require increasing the amount of renewable fuels, such as ethanol, to 36 billion gallons by 2022.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

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.»

Biorefineries produce about 15 billion gallons of ethanol a year.

Enzymes cost about 50 cents per gallon of ethanol, so recycling or using fewer enzymes would make biofuels more inexpensive.

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

The researchers conducted more than 60 experiments in which about 3.5 ounces of saline or ethanol solutions representing the planetary projectile that hit Earth was dropped into a rectangular tank holding about six gallons of fluid representing the early Earth.

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.

Yet RangeFuels» fancy new ethanol plant, which will eventually pump out 100 million gallons of fuel a year, will feed mostly on wood chips.

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.

However, more than 10 billion gallons of ethanol will be transported and blended in 2009, and the earlier limitations in ethanol distribution and blending are no longer the major factor in the growth of the industry.

«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.

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.

At the same time, the steep price of gasoline — and corn — means that next - generation ethanol can be profitable even if its price doesn't reach what Khosla Ventures» Kaul calls the «holy grail» of $ 1 a gallon.

«In the Southeast there is enough biomass from wood products alone to make 10 to 15 billion gallons of fuel a year,» says Mitch Mandich, CEO of Range Fuels, based in Broomfield, Colorado, the firm building what may be the first U.S. plant to make next - generation ethanol commercially.

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.

They contain more energy per volume; a car driving on a gallon of ethanol will go only 67 percent as far as a car on a gallon of gasoline; on butanol, it can go 80 percent as far.

One example isPanda Ethanol, which is building the largest biomass plant in the United Statesin Hereford, Texas, where it will use the waste of 3.5 milliongrazing cattle to fuel the production of approximately 115 million gallons ofethanol per year.

• 2006 ethanol capacity was 4.4 billion gallons, with an expectedincrease of 2.1 billion gallons with current construction and expansionprojects.

EPA recently revised its cellulosic target for 2013 from a proposed 14 million gallons of ethanol - equivalent to a final requirement of 6 million gallons (Greenwire, Aug. 6).

LanzaTech has partnered with Global Fortune 500 Companies and others to use this technology, including facilities that can each produce 100,000 gallons per year of ethanol, and a number of chemical ingredients for the manufacture of plastics.

It takes something like seven percent more energy to create a gallon of ethanol than that gallon even contains.