Therefore,
only grain ethanol data are presented here....»
Not exact matches
Not drying distillers
grains is feasible
only if large beef feedlots or dairies are located near the
ethanol plants....
Even if all the corn
grain available were converted to
ethanol, however, it would meet
only 15 — 18 % of current transportation fuel needs.
For example, with such genetically - engineered biocatalysts it is not
only grains of corn but corn cobs and most of the rest of the corn plant that may be used to make
ethanol.
Although human beings have been producing
ethanol,
grain alcohol, from sugar and starch for millennia, it is
only in recent years that the genetic engineering of biocatalysts has made possible such production from the hemicellulose and cellulose that constitute the substantial majority of the material in most plants.
Today 6.5 % of the world's
grain is being used as feedstock for global
ethanol production representing
only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.
But even if the entire U.S.
grain harvest were turned into
ethanol, it would
only satisfy 18 percent of current gasoline demand.
In the future, the issue will be who gets access to not
only Middle Eastern oil but also Brazilian
ethanol and North American
grain.