Sentences with phrase «used as ethanol»

Around 40 percent of the corn grown in the United States is used as ethanol in our gasoline.

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There are an estimated 65,000 of the older cars, known as DOT - 111s, currently hauling oil or ethanol in a largely integrated North American fleet — up to a third of which are being used in Canada at any given time.

This particular type of black fungus is common near distilleries because it uses ethanol as a source of energy for growth.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

In order to completely isolate the reb A, ethanol or methanol are used as a solvent to allow separation through crystallization.

Using ethanol, we thus have created what can be classified as jellyfish chips that has a crispy texture and could be of potential gastronomic interest.

In another experiment, bagasse was used as a starting plant biomass for ethanol production without washing / separation processes.

Right now ethanol is used mostly as a fuel additive; about one - third of the gasoline sold in the United States contains a shot of ethanol (about 10 percent, typically) to reduce automobile emissions.

The New Plant Fuel «Green diesel,» as it's being called, isn't the first effort to use plants to power cars; your gas tank probably has a blend of gas and plant - derived ethanol inside it right now.

16 Ethanol was widely used as an industrial fuel in America until a tax on alcoholic beverages, levied to help pay for the Civil War, prompted a switch to kerosene and methanol.

Ethanol, an alcohol that can be made from corn, is now widely used as a gasoline additive due to its oxygen content and octane rating, or antiknock index.

The team achieved better hydrogen yields using methanol and ethanol as starting materials but because glucose can be derived from plant waste such as wood pulp, straw and leftovers from corn production, the scientists will continue to work on their approach.

«So instead of taking corn and extracting its sugars to make ethanol, we're making use of the stalks and cobs left over after the corn is harvested, as well as other kinds of waste like wood chips and rice hulls.»

But experts at a major scientific meeting today described how ethanol blends used as fuel in the race cars of the Indianapolis 500 actually make those emissions cleaner than cars on the street.

All use of biomass — whether for ethanol or electricity — runs the risk of displacing food crops, however, as well as the need for large amounts of water.

This figure shows how much water is used to produced one unit of ethanol (defined as water use intensity) for each energy crop.

Obama has, however, also been a supporter of ethanol made primarily from corn — a prominent industry in his home state of Illinois — and recently told farmers he supports federal mandates to make nine billion gallons (34 billion liters) of ethanol to use as fuel this year.

Additionally, ethylene and ethanol could serve as the building blocks for a range of consumer goods, and CO2 - derived formic acid could be used by the pharmaceutical industry or as a fuel in fuel cells.

To find out, Xu and his adviser Sidney Nagel along with colleague Wendy Zhang used high - speed photography to study the splash of ethanol drops as they landed on a glass plate inside a vacuum chamber.

Indeed, biofuels aren't really a stretch — humans have been using microorganisms to ferment plants into ethanol ever since Stone Age people began making beer around 10,000 B.C. Today's work hinges on engineering a perfect microbe that will eat the entirety of a plant, retain only a little of this food for itself and spew out the rest as a high - energy fuel.

Examples of indirect use which require energy harvesting are electricity generation through wind turbines or photovoltaic cells, or production of fuels such as ethanol from biomass.

«This application could be considered a sensor by software, as the ethanol present does not respond directly to the sensors used, which only respond to the ions present in the solution,» outlines the researcher.

When it comes to using plant waste to mitigate climate change, most people think of turning it into ethanol or biodiesel for use as a fuel.

«It takes 77 million years to make fossil fuels and 45 minutes to use as a coffee cup,» says Cereplast's Scheer, noting that his industry can use the residue of government - mandated production of biofuels, such as ethanol from corn.

They used a star - shaped molecule called AEEP (aminoethoxy ethanol substituted phosphazene), the arms of which act as dynamic and mobile hydrogen bonding plasticiser molecules while being connected to a central core, effectively preventing migration and leeching of the starch molecules from the resulting plastic.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

Once they are extracted, the sugars are fermented into an alcohol — like ethanol or butanol — that can then be used as a fuel.

They expected the two species to team up and completely break down the ethanol, and that G. metallireducens would pass the spare electrons to G. sulfurreducens using hydrogen as a chemical shuttle.

While the new process is not nearly as dramatic, the healing of cut or broken e-skin, including the sensors, is done by using a mix of three commercially available compounds in ethanol, he said.

With the help of Liva Harinantenaina, a research scientist working with Kingston, the team honed in on an ethanol extract of Mallotus oppositfolius, a West African tropical flowering plant often used as a chewing stick in Nigeria but not fully studied in the scientific world.

Making use of cell and animal models, my laboratory group addresses some of the fundamental questions of how ethanol exposure injures the liver, with a goal ofidentifying the individual targets of ethanol - induced injury and the specific responses of the key cell types within the liver, as well as the integrated, organismal response to this ethanol - induced injury.

Rhodamine 101 in ethanol was used as fluorescence quantum yield standard for both excitation conditions.

U.S. organizations promoting the global use of ethanol will continue to work closely with the Japanese government as it implements its new policy and provide updated technical information about GHG reductions and other benefits of corn - based ethanol.

«It can be used in existing engines and transported in existing pipelines,» whereas some current biofuels, such as ethanol, do not fit as well into today's commercial fuel infrastructure, he said.

In fact, ethanol is used as the preferred antidote for accidental methanol poisoning in an emergency for this reason.

I used to purchase the Quicksilver Scientific brand but they use other ingredients like ethanol that didn \» t set well with me and I know your liposomal formulations do not have ingredients such as this one.

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

As part of the series» «green racing» initiative, the most successful team in ALMS history is using a blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline in the demanding arena of endurance road racing.

The 3.6 - liter V6 is the only ATS engine that can use ethanol - blended E85 fuel as well.

Especially in South America, sugarcane (which is what is actually farmed) is trading more and more like an oil proxy because of the significant use of sugar ethanol as a fuel substitute.

Michael Nolan, assistant professor of radiation oncology and biology, received $ 23,060 for a study on using enhanced ethanol ablation, or direct ethanol injections to reduce tumors, as a lower - cost treatment for oral cancer.

Michael Nolan, assistant professor of radiation oncology and biology, received $ 23,060 for a study on using enhanced ethanol ablation, or direct ethanol injections to reduce tumors, as a

Flex Fuel (also known as E85) is a gasoline - ethanol blend containing anywhere from 51 to 83 % ethanol, and can only be used in Flexible Fuel Vehicles (FFVs).

Neither global warming answer mentioned nuclear power or the absurdity of using ethanol as a useful solution.

Ethanol, as good as it may be is not a substitue for oil in uses such as for aviation, and marine applications.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

Biomass waste has a new use beyond cellulosic ethanol or electricity, thanks to Hidetaka Kawakita, a Japanese university professor who figured out a way to get trash such as paper and rotten fruit to reclaim precious metals from e-waste.

Simpletons and Bush / Mcbush apologists also feel that ethanol which is LESS efficient than ordinary gas, is a GREAT idea, even as it creates the world's largest dead zone in the Gulf, offshore drilling is THE answer despite anyone w / a brain stating that this capacity won't come online for 30 years and which will produce about three weeks» worth of oil at our country's CURRENT rate of use, and that some silly gas tax reprieve, which will cost us in infrastructure improvements and lost jobs, is a good thing....

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.

Biofuels Digest quotes Barbassa as saying that gasoline has now become «the alternative fuel»: In fact Petrobras predicts that by 2020 that the gasoline market for light vehicles will shrink by 17 %, with ethanol use increasing.