Sentences with phrase «percent into ethanol»
For maize ethanol grown in Iowa, the figures are around 0.3 percent into biomass and 0.15 percent into ethanol.
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By 2001 every BTU consumed in ethanol production generated 67 percent more energy, when coproducts like distillers» grains are taken into account.
As a result, the government of that country has decided to mandate blending 1 percent of ethanol into gasoline for the first time.
The next day, mice were split into two groups: one control group received water, and the other received water mixed with 20 percent ethanol — drinking alcohol — in their water bottles for two hours.
«The blend - stock can be mixed into gasoline at higher concentrations than ethanol's current limit of 10 percent; plus it can be added to diesel and jet fuel.
With the help of the nanotechnology - based catalyst which contains multiple reaction sites, the solution of carbon dioxide dissolved in water turned into ethanol with a yield of 63 percent.
Fast - growing sugarcane on highly fertile land in Brazil, for example, converts only around 0.5 percent of incoming solar radiation into sugar, and only around 0.2 percent ultimately into ethanol.
The bill would eliminate the current mandate to blend 15 billion gallons of corn ethanol into fuel by 2022 and ban ethanol fuel content over ten percent.
As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.»
But even if the entire U.S. grain harvest were turned into ethanol, it would only satisfy 18 percent of current gasoline demand.
They want Washington to force refiners like ExxonMobil to blend 15 percent ethanol — or E15 — into the motor - fuel supply.
This reflects the reality that approximately 40 percent of the corn crop now goes into ethanol production, a dramatic rise since the first ethanol mandates were put in place in 2005.
The decision in May 2009 to raise U.S. auto fuel efficiency standards 40 percent by 2016 will reduce U.S. dependence on oil far more than converting the country's entire grain harvest into ethanol could.