Sentences with phrase «required by ethanol»

The advantage, they say, is that these biofuels do not need the separate transport system required by ethanol, and can be produced from almost any biomass.

Not exact matches

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.

From the start, the ethanol industry has been dogged by concerns about its net energy balance — whether ethanol requires more fossil fuel to make than it replaces.

By contrast, traditional ethanol requires new equipment and uses edible plants like corn and sugar that need rich farmland to grow.

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

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.

At a biofuels energy symposium hosted by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies last week in Washington, D.C., professor Jerald Schnoor said corn ethanol production facilities require large quantities of high - purity water during the fermentation process.

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 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 by over 200 %.

The recent publication by Leoci et.al (2014) has shown that 20 % Calcium Chloride in Ethanol is the optimal solution to produce the required result.

And while I'm not personally a fan of ethanol, the plant described at the following link seems to address many of the concerns about ethanol and big - scale farming by treating wastes from one process as feedstock into another and reducing the amount of energy required at each stage.

The RFS, which requires increasingly large amounts of biofuels — mostly corn - based ethanol — to be blended into gasoline each year, will come to the forefront again when EPA finalizes 2014 biofuels levels by June...

The greens, hawks, and farmers helped convince the Senate to add an ethanol provision to the energy bill — now awaiting action by a House - Senate conference committee — that would require refiners to more than double their use of ethanol to 8 billion gallons per year by 2012.

By comparison, «renewable» and «sustainable» corn - based ethanol requires 2,510 to 29,100 gallons per million Btu of usable energy — and biodiesel from soybeans consumes an astounding and unsustainable 14,000 to 75,000 gallons of water per million Btu!

Last week the EPA dismissed a petition by the American Petroleum Institute seeking relief from the cellulosic ethanol mandate, which requires that oil refiners blend 8.65 million gallons of ethanol into the fuel supply by the end of 2012:

In the case of sugarcane ethanol, a lot of energy inputs are required, especially for purifying the ethanol, but those inputs are being satisfied by burning the sugarcane ethanol residues to produce process heat.

Almost as bad are regulations requiring the use of corn ethanol, which clearly only benefit corn producers and processors at the expense of gasoline users and illustrates how government interference in private markets can be used by special interests to reallocate income to themselves.

The United States alone would require six times its arable land — and 75 percent of the world's cultivated land — to supply its needs with ethanol made from corn, according to calculations by Vaclav Smil, an energy expert at the University of Manitoba.

Congress's ethanol mandate, which requires oil companies to use 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2020, can not be achieved, experts say, without major technological advances that are still years away.

If CAFE drops gasoline demand from 140 billion gallons per year to 100 billion gallons, and the RFS requires 36 billion gallons of ethanol by 2022, the current blend of E10 (gasoline with 10 percent ethanol) will need to be increased to E40 nationwide.

This would require around 100 billion gallons / year of ethanol, replacing 83 billion gallons of octane equivalent and resulting in a net cumulative reduction of around 13 Gt octane equivalent, which generate 40 GtCO2, by 2100.

Replacing MTBE by ethanol requires only a percent of ethanol in gasoline.

Fuel distributing companies - I'm talking about brand name gasoline and diesel - when approached by a potential supplier of ethanol can simply require provision of evidence of proper environmental permitting and of environmental management systems in place.

When EPA green - lighted E15 use, it knew E15 vehicle testing was ongoing but decided not to wait for the results — most likely to raise the permissible concentration level of ethanol in fuels so that greater volumes could be used, as required by the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS).