Sentences with phrase «production of ethanol»

In standard production of ethanol, enzymes are used to break down the biomass and release sugars.

During the first global oil crisis in 1975, Brazil launched a national biofuel programme leading to the large - scale production of ethanol from domestic sugar supplies.

As a result, the energy recovered in the ethanol so produced is less than that required to produce it, i.e., there is a negative energy balance (more production of ethanol imposes more load on the environment).

The Bill also mandates the increased production of Ethanol to a total of 36 billion gallons per year by 2022 from the current 5 billion gallons of U.S. production.

Sugarcane produces most of the world's sugar and is being increasingly used for renewable energy supply through production of ethanol and electricity.

The recent achievements of the institute, based in southern India and with half a dozen hubs across Africa, include advances in pea hybrids and commercial production of ethanol from sweet sorghum.

In this line, the plan estimates that national production of ethanol will go from 25.6 billion liters this year to almost double in 2017 (53.2 billion).

«Ethanol alone is not profitable; valuable coproducts will make biorefineries sustainable,» he concluded, explaining that advanced biorefineries would be able to use engineered yeast such as GMAX for simultaneous production of ethanol, alternative biofuels, plastics, chemicals, and animal feed.

Brazil has one of the largest renewable energy programs in the world, involving production of ethanol fuel from sugar cane, and ethanol now provides 18 percent of the country's automotive fuel.

Hawaii also has a thriving sugar cane industry, which many people have eyed for the renewable production of ethanol.

While industrial production of ethanol may not be the savior as it was once heralded, home distillers are willing to tap into a more parochial form of energy independence.

Among those critics: The Union of Concerned Scientists, which urged the USDA to ban outdoor production of ethanol, as well as all other food crop engineered for industrial or drug purposes.

The researchers conclude: «The energy discarded in wasted food is more than the energy available from many popular efficiency and energy procurement strategies, such as the annual production of ethanol from grains and annual petroleum available from drilling in the outer continental shelf,» and so minimizing wasted food means minimizing overall energy consumption.

One such application is the production of ethanol as a biofuel.

Copper is a catalyst — a material used to activate and speed up chemical reactions — and, while it aids in the production of ethanol when exposed to CO2 and water, it is not efficient enough to make large quantities of ethanol.

By applying this new technology to enzymes required for the production of ethanol — an important biofuel — the researchers were able to increase alcohol production by over 200 %.

The new yeasts accelerate the wort fermentation process and improve the production of ethanol.

One possibly application is the production of ethanol as a biofuel.

For starters, our country's system for mandating and subsidizing the production of ethanol has meant that farmers who could be using their land to grow today's food feel economically compelled to grow tomorrow's fuel instead.

Canola and wheat are also used for the production of ethanol, a component of gasohol (gasoline and ethanol).

Supplements: Hydrolyzed yeast is a by - product of the production of ethanol.

Analysis by Kansas State grain scientists found that next generation DDGs (left - overs from the production of ethanol that includes residues of yeast) contain 50.8 percent crude protein, compared with 47.8 percent in soybean meal or 67.1 percent in corn gluten meal.

This will require some technological breakthroughs since the production of ethanol from such sources as switch grass require the use of cellulosic enzymes whose economical production has not been perfected yet.

There is no way that the production of ethanol can release less CO2 than just producing gasoline from coal and growing permanent trees on the corn fields instead to capture CO2.

He described the production of ethanol from corn as a mature technology, with U.S. ethanol production reaching nine billion gallons, or about 4.2 % of gasoline usage in 2008.

Called «marc,» grape waste could serve as an ideal feedstock for the production of ethanol, according to PhD candidate Kendall Corbin.

As Green Car Congress (GCC) reports, Researchers at Purdue University have developed a new front - end processing technique for the production of ethanol from corn that is more environmentally friendly and less costly than conventional wet - or dry - milling processes.

Sorgo has developed technology for the production of ethanol, electricity and protein from sweet sorghum.

BlueFire is the exclusive North America licensee of the Technology for use in the production of ethanol for the transportation fuel market.

The islands boast consistently strong wind densities, great insolation characteristics, enormous reservoirs of geothermal energy, plant life that is perfect for the production of ethanol, and an incredible oceanic wave resource, all of which could be exploited by renewable technologies without damaging the environment.

Over a year ago, the U.S. Congress passed a law requiring massive increases in the production of ethanol and other biofuels.

In recent years, the production of ethanol — a proven vehicle fuel — from cellulosic biomass, such as cereal straw or wood, has moved into the commercial demonstration phase.

By subsidizing the production of ethanol, now to the tune of some $ 6 billion each year, U.S. taxpayers are in effect subsidizing rising food bills at home and around the world.

Furthermore, whether the production of ethanol can be greatly expanded without causing more harmful secondary impacts is in doubt.

As Gail notes, this is far from the truth: «This simplistic model is not correct for the production of corn - based ethanol because fossil fuels are used in the growing of corn and the production of ethanol, and these contribute to global warming gasses.