Sentences with phrase «produce fuel ethanol»

Between 1980 and 2005, the amount of grain used to produce fuel ethanol in the United States gradually expanded from 1 million to 41 million tons.

The latter would mean, for example, using less corn and more switchgrass to produce fuel ethanol.

Not exact matches

Another quick - maturing technology, which Canadian firm Iogen is pioneering, is cellulose ethanol, a fuel made from crop and forest residues and urban wastes that could be locally produced in rural British Columbia.

A few years later, LifeLine Foods and ICM Inc., the world leader in ethanol facility design and engineering, formed a joint venture to transform the corn mill into the country's first corn - processing plant that utilizes a proprietary technology developed by ICM to produce food and fuel simultaneously.

Fermentation is triggered by lactic acid bacteria — or lactobacilli — and yeasts, which use the carbohydrate fuels from the cereal grains to produce ethanol (alcohol), carbon dioxide, lactic acid and acetic acid.

According to our analysis, this would generate more than enough electricity to power the biorefinery, so surplus power could be sold back to the grid, displacing electricity produced from fossil fuels — a practice already used in some plants in Brazil to produce ethanol from sugarcane.

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.

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.

«But there are ways to obtain ethanol for fuel from fermentation that produce something that chemically is very much like beer — so beer is an excellent readily available model to test our technology.»

«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.

Gates has invested in several renewable fuels companies, including Pacific Ethanol and Sapphire Energy; the latter intends to produce gasoline from algae.

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.

Then the company used custom - designed microbes to produce the new fuels by fermentation from a conventional ethanol feedstock.

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.

Searchinger's outlook is bleaker: He estimates that the rise in corn - based ethanol production in the United States would increase greenhouse gases, relative to what our current, fossil - fuel - based economy produces, for 167 years.

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.

That was the knock on ethanol: that it took more energy to create than it produced as fuel.

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.

Ethanol fuel is produced from sugar cane in Brazil and from the cellulose of a wide variety of plants, including cornstalks, poplar trees, and switch grass, as well as waste left over from the forest products industry, wheat, oat, and barley straw.

Methanol is used for producing biodiesel, as a fuel, denaturant for ethanol, and is a greenhouse gas.

The real reason for the existence of ethanol fuel is that it is somewhat easier to produce ethanol from agricultural products than it is to produce biogasoline.

Furthermore, the Brazilian subsidiary began producing flex - fuel versions for the Civic and the Fit models, capable of running on any blend of gasoline (E20 to E25 blend in Brazil) and ethanol up to E100.

The customized Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car runs on E85 ethanol, a domestically produced alternative fuel.

«Most of the vehicles in Brazil are powered by ethanol, so I understand how a domestically produced renewable fuel can help the energy solutions of a nation,» said Fittipaldi, who previously drove the Corvette Z06 E85 Concept pace car at the 2008 Indianapolis 500.

The Brazilian - spec Jeep 551 will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex - fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm running on petrol or 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II diesel engine.

FlexFuel can be advantageous in parts of the country where higher - percentage ethanol fuel blends are offered, as GM FlexFuel engines have been engineered to produce more horsepower while running high - octane blends.

According to the Brazilian publication, the South American - spec version will be offered with a 2.0 - litre Tigershark flex - fuel (petrol - ethanol) engine that produces 159 cv (159 hp) at 6,200 rpm running on petrol and 164 cv (164 hp) at 6,000 rpm running on ethanol, as well as a 2.0 - litre MultiJet II diesel engine.

The fuel, which supposedly produces less volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions than regular diesel fuel or ethanol, is being produced by RenTech in Rialto, California.

The motor can be run on E85 Flex Fuel and produces slightly better power numbers when using ethanol.

A better title would have been: «Fueled: The Effects of Using Food for Fuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fFuel» or something like that, because the central question of the book is to what degree has using crops to produce biomass for fuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and ffuel production (usually ethanol) affected the costs of food and fuelfuel.

The company they've bought into has a novel approach to producing ethanol that could use virtually any carbon source and would decouple that fuel from corn production, potentially making it possible for cities to produce their own transportation fuel using their own MSW, eliminating some of the need for landfilling and the associated long - tail methane and CO2 releases from same.

The United States produced 16.2 billion liters of fuel ethanol in 2005, nearly surpassing Brazil to become the world's largest fuel ethanol producer.

Cellulosic ethanol from grasses, sugarcane and algae probably offer the best opportunities going forward to produce clean, renewable fuel without impacting food supply.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

for example, someone from the ethanol lobby had a letter in the times pointing to some 300 000 000 (million) gallons of ethanol for road fuel produced i a recent year.

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.

For example, a farmer in northern Iowa could plant an acre in corn that yields enough grain to produce roughly $ 1,000 worth of fuel - grade ethanol per year, or he could use that same acre to site a turbine producing $ 300,000 worth of electricity each year.

The mixed oxide that consists of a blend of two known catalysts, zinc oxide and zirconium oxide, was actually developed to produce hydrogen fuel from ethanol.

In fact, cumulative new ethanol production since 2005 has accounted for 62 % of new domestically - produced liquid fuels, while cumulative new U.S. crude oil production has accounted for 38 %.

Therefore 90 % of the liquid fuels used to produce the ethanol is from fossil fuels.

In 2011, the world produced 23 billion gallons of fuel ethanol and nearly 6 billion gallons of biodiesel.

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Crops can be used to produce automotive fuels, such as ethanol and biodiesel.

However, we only have about 10 years until the Renewable Fuel Standard ceases increasing, and we have yet to produce any cellulosic ethanol at all.

(Ethanol contains 2 / 3rds the energy of gasoline, but a barrel of crude also produces diesel, jet fuel, and fuel oil).

It can be a lot more productive to produce mixed fuels like Acetone, Butanol and Ethanol in a process than trying to produce a single highly pure fuel.

The Pixley Biogas, LLC anaerobic digester facility produces biomethane from cow manure to replace the natural gas used to heat Calgren Renewable Fuels» ethanol vehicle fuel.