Am curious as to what energy is used for the grinding, heating, cooking and processing of waste. Seems like alot of energy is required to produce the ethanol..
How much feed corn do you eat? The starch can be removed from grain as alcohol and then the left overs can be fed to cattle as quality feed. The starch is hard on cattle anyway. However, Corn ethanol is one of the least efficient methods of making fuel alcohol. These plants could be converted to higher efficiency ethanol producers with better feedstock selection.
Should have been using hemp from the beginning, would have been a WHOLE lot better off. Environment, economy, everything. There's still people starving and corn is being used as fuel! How stupid.
True and I think the US should import Brazilian Ethanol because corn prices are up going up since they are diverted towards Ethanol production, and only Sugarcane ethanol is more fuel efficient than corn ethanol. The us should remove the tariff on Brazilian ethanol because it will free the US from Oil dependency
Great video! I'm interested to setup this plant. but I'm computer science background. raw materials easily available in my place. Is this profitable business? any training program on this?
Ethanol is the answer as GWB said America is addicted to OIL..and he and his Buddies were addicted to sticking it to USA with High OIL Prices...2005 to now..HUH???
CTS Technology? Does anyone hear about this? Blue Biofuels, Inc., is one of the few companies that can take almost any plant matter, paper/cardboard, and many other feedstocks to produce ethanol.
ITS PUMPED TO A VAPORIZER WHERE ITS TURNED IN A VAPOR AND THEN SUCKED THROUGH THE SIEVE. AND THEN SENT TO A HEAT EXCHANGER WITH THIN STILLAGE ON THE TUBE SIDE THAT IS COOLER. AND THEN THE VAPOR IS ON THE SHELL SIDE WHERE IT CONDENSES BACK INTO A LIQUID AND IS PUMPED OUT
Typically the vapor from the top of the rectifying column is metered to the mole sieves. It is superheated before entering the sieve vessels to about 20 deg F higher than saturation temperature to ensure no condensation inside the mole sieve vessels. You can use liquid phase mole sieves but they are usually employed to get very low levels of water in the finish product.
Well that's an expected drawback obviously.. Ethanol il not meant to be an energy source but to be a substitute for gasoline as a transportable, easy to use and cleaner combustible
Video was informative. I could have done without the background music. The U.S. population is our continuing battle to supply and keep ahead of our wants and needs.
Well, instead of "stuffing" us with all the corn starch used in unhealthy and fattening foods, diverting some of the corn harvest to ethanol production would't be such a bad idea afterall... Of course, as below posts are remarking, will have multiple side effects on economies here and there...but we, THE CONSUMERS, are always screwed in a way or another! At least we could have a liiiiittle bit less pollution and a liiiittle less unhealthy foods, no?
this will cost the people in the USA more then ever. First off for food.. now that corn is in BIG demand it will jack of the price of feed for animals. Also you will burn more of it in your car cause it doesn't get the millage. And ethanol attracts water and caused damage to your fuel system.
WTF are bushel ? Can you not use normal SI units like EVERYONE ELSE IN THE DAMN WORLD, instead of some random stupid shit like cats per carpet or something.
