First BioFuel Plant In Indiana
Evergreen Renewables, LLC, is currently building the first operating biodiesel plant in the State of Indiana. The biodiesel plant will be located at Wolf Lake Terminals in Hammond, Indiana. The new facility, likely to cost around $10 million, will produce 5 million gallons of biodiesel from soybean oil each year. Production is expected to begin soon and the company is striving to increase production to 30 million gallons per year.
Branson pledges $3bn transport profits to fight global warming
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Biomethane — Cow Power for Your Tank
Methane gas derived from dairy manure offers a substitute for natural gas to power motor vehicles. Known as biomethane, the odorless gas is entirely renewable and environmentally friendly, and can be produced locally. Switching to biomethane:
- Improves air quality
- Reduces greenhouse gas emissions
- Protects water quality
- Strengthens rural economies
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Liquid Fuels From Biomass
Liquid fuels are complex mixtures of hydrocarbons or oxygenated hydrocarbons in the form of ethers or alcohols. The transformation of biomass into these types of compounds involves breaking down the macropolymers of biomass into elemental molecules and then reconfiguring these molecules into the desired fuel compounds. There are two fundamental approaches to this transformation: one is a bioconversion approach and the other uses thermochemical methods. Commercial ethanol and biodiesel liquid fuels production is well established in the U.S., and new pyrolysis and thermal depolymerization techniques are being developed to produce hydrocarbon fuels from cellulosic resources. Large polygeneration carbon-to-liquids plants can process a varied blend of coal, oil shale, and biomass feedstocks into oil. These combination plants first will gasify the carbon-bearing feedstocks and then combine the product gases into liquid fuels using well established Fisher-Tropsch technology.
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The Need for Fuels Produced Using Synthetic Biology
Among the most promising short term applications of Synthetic Biology is biological production of liquid fuels. But beyond the technical and economic attraction of the project, the reasons we require progress in this area are manifest; diversification of fuel sources thereby reducing dependency on imports, improving air quality, reducing greenhouse gas and particulate emissions that contribute to climate change, eliminating the present coupling between biofuels and food crops, and carbon sequestration. Read more.. |
How Much Energy Does It Take to Make a Gallon of Ethanol?
David Lorenz and David Morris
©1995 Institute for Local-Self Reliance (ILSR)
Reproduction permitted with attribution to ILSR
One of the most controversial issues relating to ethanol is the question of what environmentalists call the "net energy" of ethanol production. Simply put, is more energy used to grow and process the raw material into ethanol than is contained in the ethanol itself?
In 1992, ILSR addressed this question. Our report, based on actual energy consumption data from farmers and ethanol plant operators, was widely disseminated and its methodology has been imitated by a number of other researchers. This paper updates the data in that original report and addresses some of the concerns that some reviewers of the original report expressed.
Our analysis again concludes that the production of ethanol from corn is a positive net energy generator. Indeed, the numbers look even more attractive now than they did in 1992. More energy is contained in the ethanol and the other by-products of corn processing than is used to grow the corn and convert it into ethanol and by-products. If corn farmers use state-of-the-art, energy efficient farming techniques and ethanol plants integrate state-of-the-art production processes, then the amount of energy contained in a gallon of ethanol and the other by-products is more than twice the energy used to grow the corn and convert it into ethanol. Read More..
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American scientists favor turning a greenhouse gas back into gasoline
If two scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are correct, people will still be driving gasoline-powered cars 50 years from now, churning out heat-trapping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and yet that carbon dioxide will not contribute to global warming.The scientists, Jeffrey Martin and William Kubic Jr., are proposing a concept, which they have patriotically named Green Freedom, for removing carbon dioxide from the air and turning it back into gasoline.The idea is simple. Air would be blown over a liquid solution of potassium carbonate, which would absorb the carbon dioxide. The carbon dioxide would then be extracted and subjected to Read More..
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage in Deep Geological Formations
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VERVA Fuels Improve Engine Performance
The cutting edge VERVA fuels have been produced to improve engine performance under various climatic conditions and changeable load environments. The increased content of washing additives ensures that the inlet system is clean and even allows the removal of deposits collected when using fuels of unknown origin. The washing efficiency of VERVA fuels has been proved in accordance with the Mercedes Benz 102E engine testing method. The result for VERVA was ranked Read More..
Tires As An Alterative Fuel?
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About Natural Gas
Natural gas resources are widely and plentifully distributed throughout the world. At current consumption rates, many countries have several decades, if not centuries, of estimated natural-gas resources. A recent U.S. Department of Energy study reports that recoverable reserves and resources of natural gas in the lower 48 states total 1.295 trillion cubic feet, more than a 70-year supply at current production levels. Most of these reserves are recoverable at prices below $3.50, so the country is in no danger of running out of natural gas any time soon. Most U.S. gas demand is met by domestic production. In 1992, 9.2% of U.S. natural gas consumption was met by imports, virtually all arriving by pipeline from Canada. The low level of U.S. imports is typical of the natural gas markets worldwide. While nearly 50% of world oil production crosses a country's borders, only 16% of the world's gas production does so.
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Excess C02 Used for Secondary Oil Recovery
The most promising technology for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) involves the injection of CO2 into the oil reservoir, and the potential for CO2-EOR in the U.S. is increasing continuously with advances in technology. Reservoir modeling, especially for CO2-EOR, has become extremely sophisticated with the increased capabilities of modern computers and with the development of advanced computer codes. The synergism of the advanced technologies allow Read More.. |
'The good news is we've found a plant that can save the world. The bad news is ... it's illegal!'Our challenge to the world: try to prove us wrong - if all fossil fuels and their derivatives (coal, oil, natural gas, synthetic fibres and petrochemicals) as well as the deforestation of trees for paper and agriculture (eg Brazilian and Indonesian rainforests), were banned from use in order to save the planet, to preserve the ozone layer and to reverse the greenhouse effect with its global warming trend: Read More..
BioFuel and Renewable Energy Task Force Report
Ohio State Corn Growers et. al.
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Cellulosic ethanol
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cellulosic ethanol (also called lignocellulosic ethanol, or ceetoh) is a type of biofuel produced from lignocellulose, a structural material that comprises much of the mass of plants. Lignocellulose is composed mainly of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. Corn stover, switchgrass, miscanthus and woodchip are some of the more popular cellulosic materials for ethanol production. Cellulosic ethanol is chemically identical to ethanol from other sources, such as corn starch or sugar, but has the advantage that the lignocellulose raw material is highly abundant and diverse. However, it differs in that it requires a greater amount of processing to make the sugar monomers available to the microorganisms that are typically used to produce ethanol by fermentation. Switchgrass is the major biomass material being studied today, due to its high levels of cellulose. Cellulose, however, is contained in nearly every natural, free-growing plant, tree, and bush, in meadows, forests, and fields all over the world without agricultural effort or cost needed to make it grow. Whether distilled from agricultural crops such as corn, wheat, barley or created from cellulose, ethanol is ethyl alcohol; it is identical in chemical composition regardless of the source thus calling it cellulosic ethanol is initially misleading because it (cellulosic ethanol) is no different physically from corn ethanol or wheat ethanol. In essence, the term is used to describe the process for producing the alcohol rather than specifying a type of ethanol. |
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