Sentences with phrase «volume ethanol blends»

E85 can also provide important reductions in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions as compared to petroleum - derived gasoline or lower volume ethanol blends.

Not exact matches

Using higher volume blends of ethanol to leverage the alcohol's inherent high octane rating to produce ethanol - gasoline blends with higher octane numbers could yield «substantial societal benefits», according to a team of researchers from Ford Motor Company.

These predictions established the volumes that refiners are required to use to blend into our gasoline — even though there is no cellulosic ethanol available, period!

As biofuel mandates increase, the ethanol volume required for blending into gasoline will exceed 10 percent — known as the «E10 Blend Wall.»

The 2005 energy bill and a 2007 revamp mandated increasing volumes of cellulosic ethanol be blended into the nation's gasoline and diesel supplies each year through 2022.

[68] The U.S. consumed 138.2 × 109 US gal (523 × 106 m3) of gasoline in 2008, blended with about 9.6 × 109 US gal (36 × 106 m3) of ethanol, representing a market share of almost 7 % of supply by volume.

Greco said API asked EPA to set the volume requirements no higher than 9.7 percent of gasoline demand to help avoid the blend wall and to protect strong consumer demand for ethanol - free fuel.

Reformulated gasolines absorbed the mandated ethanol volumes that stayed under the E10 blend wall (E10).

But the mandated ethanol volumes ratcheted up over time, and eventually, staying under the E10 blend wall would not be possible.

With an E10 blend wall, the full volume of ethanol mandated could no longer be met.