Free Essays on Ethanol

  1. Ethanol Fuel

    many people thought that ethanol as an alternative fuel source was a brilliant idea, including myself. It was thought that ethanol mixed with gasoline would greatly help the environment and cut down on gasoline prices. However, through my research I have found that ethanol is a poor choice of alternative...

  2. Ethanol

    through a rough rise about the modifications needed to accommodate ethanol in motor vehicle. Before I start, does anyone know some of its properties which differentiate itself with petrol? Yeps. They are the ones on the projector.# Ethanol has a uniquely narrow vapourisation temperature, so an air heating...

  3. The Impact of Ethanol Production on Prices of Agricultural Products in the U.S.A.

    The Impact of Ethanol Production on Prices of Agricultural Products in the U.S.A. Introduction The energy crisis in the early 1970s as a result of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil embargo disrupted global oil and energy supplies and prices. In addition the ambition to...

  4. Ethanol Market - Global Industry Share, Growth, Forecast, 2013 – 2019

    Transparency Market Research Single User License: Ethanol Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 - 2019 Transparency Market Research State Tower, 90, State Street, Suite 700. Albany, NY 12207 United States www.transparencymarketresearch.com sales@transparencymarketresearch...

  5. Ethanol Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast, 2013 - 2019

    Ethanol Market - Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends And Forecast, 2013 - 2019 Ethanol is a volatile, colorless and flammable alcohol. Major industrial applications of ethanol include pharmaceutical, alcoholic beverages, chemical feedstock, fuel and others. Ethanol is produced from...

  6. Ethanol Market: Global Industry Analysis and Opportunity Assessment 2015-2025 by Future Market Insights

    Global Ethanol Market Share, Global Trends, Analysis, Research, Report, Opportunities, Segmentation and Forecast, 2015 Future Market Insights www.futuremarketinsights.com sales@futuremarketinsights.com Report Description Report Description Ethanol is a compound which is manufactured...

  7. Global Alcohol Market to be driven by surging demand for Ethanol and Methanol

    transparencymarketresearch.com/alcohol-market.html Demand for Ethanol to drive the Global Alcohol Market The global alcohol market is segmented on the basis of type of alcohols, applications, and geography. On the basis of type of alcohol, this market is categorized into ethanol, butanol, methanol, sorbitol, xylitol, ethylene...

  8. Should the Government Continue to Promote Ethanol as an Alternative to Imported Oil?

    competitive. A revenue-neutral $35-per-barrel price floor on oil would provide the security investors need. At this price, alternative fuels like cellulosic ethanol, shale and tar sands oil and diesel could still compete with regular gasoline. Long-term energy security also requires the use of clean energy. As...

  9. Bioethanol Production

    at ScienceDirect Applied Energy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/apenergy Recent trends in global production and utilization of bio-ethanol fuel Mustafa Balat *, Havva Balat Sila Science and Energy Unlimited Company, Mekan Sok, No 24, Trabzon, Turkey a r t i c l e i n f o a b...

  10. Garlic Extract as an Antibiotic

    controls, penicillin and chloramphenicol which have proven to be effective against killing off pure culture bacteria and one negative control containing ethanol which is not effective against killing off pure culture bacteria. Method: To begin the experiment of testing the antibiotic properties of a garlic...

  11. The Quest for Biofuels: Issues and Concerns

    arise that need to be considered. Currently grain-based ethanol production is the primary means by which biofuels are produced in the United States. Corn is the grain of choice in this production system. The annual production capacity of ethanol has increased rapidly in recent years, from 1.7 billion...

  12. SC4730 Unit 6.1 Analysis

    warranty. Ethanol is a renewable fuel made from various plant materials collectively known as "biomass." More than 95% of U.S. gasoline contains ethanol, typically E10 (10% ethanol, 90% gasoline), to oxygenate the fuel and reduce air pollution. Ethanol is also available as E85, or high-level ethanol blends...

  13. Chemistry - Production of Materials Notes

    C3H8 (g) Hydration of ethylene (the reverse can also happen known as de-hydration, where concentrated acid is used): * ethylene + water ethanol * C2H4 (g) + H2O (l) C2H5OH (l) Hydrogenation of ethylene: * ethylene + hydrogen ethane * C2H4 (g) + H2 (g) C2H6...

  14. Alternative Fuels

    are mixing ethanol, or corn oil, with gasoline to reduce the use of oil. They are mixing it at a 10 to 90 ratio also called E10 and at a 85 to 15 ratio called E85. Ethanol should be mixed with gasoline to reduce the prices of fuels and emmissions of cars at a 10 to 90 ratio. Ethanol should...

  15. BUSN 420 WEEK 7 ASSIGNMENT

    Inc Northeast Iowa Ethanol, LLC v. Drizin BUSN 420 WEEK 7 ASSIGNMENT Follow this link to get this tutorial: http://wiseamerican.us/product/busn-420-week-7-assignment/ Contact us at: SUPPORT@WISEAMERICAN.US BUSN 420 WEEK 7 ASSIGNMENT Ginn v. Renaldo, Inc Northeast Iowa Ethanol, LLC v. Drizin ...

  16. Bioethanol from Agricultural Waste Residues

    enzyme-based biomass-to-ethanol alteration processes. (Grooms, 2008) It is currently projected to supply ten to fourteen percent of the requirement for energy supply in the world. (Hossain et al, 2008) The requirement for ethanol from biomass could be considerable once ethanol becomes the alternative...

  17. The Process of Making Alcohol

    + Carbon Dioxide gas Glucose Ethanol (Overall chemistry of fermentation) As we can see in the equation above, there is a form of Carbon dioxide gas produced during the fermentation and the rest of the molecules form another compound which is the Ethanol. In today’s world, people don’t...

  18. Alternative Fuels in Motor Vehicles

    in our market there are approximately 5 different alternative fuel options for the automotive industry. These fuels include Hydrogen, natural gas, ethanol, electricity, and biodiesel. According to the Dictionary of Ecology and Environmental Science, alternative fuels are “fuels other than gasoline or...

  19. Turn Your Car Green

    alternative to America’s dependency to foreign oil is Ethanol Fuel. The problem with this is, us as Americans need to demand it. We can’t set back and wait for the government to make it available for us years down the line. We must demand it now. Ethanol is a liquid fuel made from vegetable type sources...

  20. You Can Have a Deeper Understanding of the Deep Corn Processing Machinery

    focuses primarily on the production of grain ethanol. In this process the corn kernels are hammer milled into a medium-to-fine grind meal for introduction to the ethanol production process. The products of a traditional dry grind ethanol facility are fuel ethanol and Dried Distillers Grains (DDG), a low-value...

  21. Salicylic Acid

    (solid and liquid). The solutes that did demonstrate solubility makes sense given the “like dissolves like” principle. Polar solutes like water and ethanol dissolved in more polar solutes such phthalic acid, resorcinol and sodium napthionate. The more nonpolar solvents such as ligroin and toluene were...

  22. Global Alcohol Market to Find New Growth Prospects in Extensive Use as Fuels, Solvents, and in Beverages.pdf

    xylitol, ethanol, methanol, pentanol, and sorbitol. Of these, ethanol is the most used alcohol in the world, with a demand that exceeds 100 bn liters. 80% of the ethanol produced is used as fuel, since it is considered a renewable fuel with a potential to substitute gasoline. The demand for ethanol is particularly...

  23. Biofuels, a Healthy Alternative?

    Their impacts on farming have been tragically felt by abandoned fishing communities in the Gulf of Mexico. Farm lands used to raise corn for ethanol are located near rivers tributary to the Mississippi River. In order to mass produce corn more fertilizers and pesticides are required. These are eventually...

  24. Jydox

    higher cost for mitigating carbon relative to other measures. A review of the literature also found biofuels to be high cost, other than sugar-cane ethanol which is estimated to be cost-effective. As crude oil prices rise biofuels should become more cost-effective. A review of the literature found that...

  25. Hydrocarbons

    Distillation is commonly used to separate ethanol (the alcohol in alcoholic drinks) from water. Distillation process to separate ethanol from water [pic] The mixture is heated in a flask. Ethanol has a lower boiling point than water so it evaporates first. The ethanol vapour is then cooled and condensed...

  26. Anaerobic Respiration in Yeast

    thousands of years in the preparation of food such as bread, cheese, yoghurt, alcoholic drinks and vinegar on a much large scale yeast is used to make ethanol. Many of these foods are products of anaerobic respiration Yeast uses anaerobic respiration because there is limited oxygen available. Yeast is used...

  27. Corn Starch Industry will Reflect Significant Growth Prospects during 2012-18: Transparency Market Research

    technology used. One of the biggest trends is the research and development of corn-starch bio-processing to produce fermentation products along with ethanol. The key market drivers for the global corn starch market include advancements in the field of biotechnology, discovery of new fermentation organisms...

  28. Yeast Market: grow at a CAGR of above 8.6 % between 2016 and 2021.

    Yeast Market Zion Research has published a new report titled “Yeast Market by Form (Instant, Fresh and Dry Yeast), by Type (Brewers, Bakers, Bio-ethanol, Wine, Feed and Other type), by Specialty Yeast (Yeast Autolysis, Yeast Extract and ß-glucan) for Food and feed: Global Industry Perspective, Comprehensive...

  29. Density Affect the Boiling Time

    honey and record on data table Hello people who do u do? a. b. Measure the density of water and record on data table c. Measure the density of ethanol and record on data table Measure the density of milk(whole) and record on data table Hello people who do u do? D. Hello people who do u do? a. ...

  30. Revo War

    use items that are used everyday and seen everyday and combine them together to make ethanol. The garbage is combined with pretreated agricultural wastes. Once the items are combined the finished product is ethanol that can be used for many resources in life. Besides producing biofuels, the biorefinery...

  31. Biotechnology Friend or Foe of the Environment?

    biotechnology itself. According to chemical engineer Ramon Gonzalez – a strain of bacteria, E. Coli, can convert glycerin to ethanol under certain conditions efficiently. Ethanol is also another popular biofuel, thus allowing us to fully utilize the fuel crops we grow. With this, there will be less dumping...

  32. Genetic Determination of Alcoholism

    polymorphisms (SNPs), studies of causes for gene expression, and the use of candidate gene targeting to establish if a gene will help or hinder the ethanol metabolism. Depending on the ADH or ALDH variants, the levels of oxidation of toxic substance acetaldehyde to acetate will directly affect the risk...

  33. .Docx

    REQUIRED ARE:- Chemicals Required | Concentration Taken | Egg shell (calcium carbonate) | - | Hydrochloric Acid ( HCl ) | 1.0 mol dm-3 | Ethanol ( C2H5OH) | Few drops | Sodium Hydroxide ( NaOH ) | 0.100 mol dm-3 | APPARATUS:- Apparatus Taken | Quantity Taken | Uncertainty | Conical...

  34. Types of Fermentation - Overview

    a natural or genetically improved strain •Enzymes: Catalase, amylase, protease •Metabolites –Primary: Ethanol, citric acids, vitamins, polysaccharides –Secondary: Antibiotics –A microorganism's foreign product –a product from recombinant...

  35. Solubility tests and Recrystallization

    Informal lab report: Experiment #1 Solubility tests and Recrystallization Results and calculations: ligroin toluene Ethanol water Anthracene Insoluble Soluble/cold White amorphous insoluble Soluble/hot White amorphous Benzoic Acid Partly soluble White needles Insoluble Soluble White...

  36. Global Warming and You

    2. Sell the SUV and choose cleaner, more efficient vehicles. Reduce your driving: one gallon of gas burned creates 20 pounds of CO2. Fuel up on ethanol and biodiesel. 3. Use efficient appliances, replace light bulbs with low-voltage compact fluorescents, check your home insulation. Buy renewable...

  37. nnnd

    Films-Polyethylene made from natural gas liquids that Comparable quality and properties to petroleum-based polyethylene Fuel Ethanol-Acid hydrolysis of starch that can Lower fuel prices: Without ethanol, gas prices would increase 14.6% in the short term and 3.7% long term Vitamin b-12-Genetically enhanced microbe...

  38. Ice Nucleation

    added then the DDH2O will not nucleate. Materials & Method: Procedure- The bench was cleaned with 70% ethanol. Distilled water in a test tube was placed in a supercooling bath of ice and ethanol. A drop of Pseudomonas syringae was added to the test tube and observed. The experiment was also conducted...

  39. Global Warming: a Close Look at the Current Solutions Proposed

    with creating biofuels is accounted for, the only truly carbon neutral biofuel is one based off sugarcane, not ethanol derived from corn as the U.S. has created. Many studies show that ethanol consumes more energy while in production than it actually contains. However, even burning sugarcane based biofuels...

  40. Distillation lab writeup

    solubility’s Solvent Boiling Point (○C) Refractive Index (nD) Water Solubility n-Hexane 69.0 1.3749 Insoluble Methanol 64.7 1.3284 Soluble Ethanol 78.5 1.3616 Soluble Water 100 1.3330 soluble The purpose of the lab is to separate a mixture containing two unknown compounds using fractional...

  41. My Paper

    with some new energy alternatives. Ethanol subsidy for the county has usually been around 40 to 60 cents per gallon for a while. There is a really fast increase in the oil prices which was the reason for the demand in the ethanol. Because of this rise in the ethanol, the prices have went up on corn and...

  42. Scientific Investigation lab

    above. Record the structure of the new molecule you have constructed. 13. This is ethanol. Will ethanol interact with water molecules? Why or why not? 14. What will happen when two ethanol molecules are brought together? Why is this occurring with these molecules? 15...

  43. New Report - Global Glycol Ethers Market Study To 2020: Grand View Research, Inc.

    strategic position against DuPont is likely to enhance the company’s presence in the market. In 2014, Green Biologics acquired Central MN Ethanol Co-operatives ethanol plant with a view to expand existing production capacity However, shutdown of France based glycol ethers plant by INEOS in 2011, aided growth...

  44. Food Topic:Food for Fuel

    ecology and agriculture at Cornell University, found the energy needed to produce ethanol (biofuel) from corn – growing and refining – required a great deal more energy (2). As a result, the access energy used to produce ethanol, also produced greater carbon dioxide and other unwanted by-products, which voids...

  45. Fermentation

    | | | End product of alcohol fermentation is alcohol (ethanol) Where pyruvate is converted to acetaldehyde then into ethanol. [pic] Microbiology of Yogurt Production Yogurt production has been carried out for centuries as a process of...

  46. Energy Resource Challenges

    may not blow for some time making this source harder to maintain. Ethanol this renewable energy source is made from corn stalks, grain, and woodchips. This renewable energy is not readily available in all states. Where I live ethanol cost more than fuel, so it is not cost -effective to operate a vehicle...

  47. Experiment

    chlorophyll How the leaf looks before and after the experiment Amount of water used Size of the beaker Amount of iodine solution Amount of ethanol used Parts of the leaf that don’t contain chlorophyll Method: 1. Place all equipment on bench 2. Set up the Bunsen burner, tripod and gauze mat...

  48. Sustainable Transport

    neutral biomass can be converted to biofuels such as ethanol, methanol, biodiesel, di-methyl esters (DME) and Fischer-Tropsch liquids, as well as carbon-free hydrogen. Ethanol and biodiesel are the two fuels currently used in the transport system. Ethanol is produced from fermentation of sugar canes in Brazil...

  49. Becoming of Biofuel

    2003 (Sweden being pionnière). The ethanol has corrosive properties more significant than the gasoline, the feeding system while carburizing must be reinforced, just like certain internal elements with the engine which undergo stronger constraints (valves). The ethanol having a different output, the times...

  50. antracene

    Phthalic Acid Resorcinol Sodium Napthionate cold hot crystal cold hot crystal cold hot crystal cold hot crystal cold hot crystal Ethanol - + + snowflake like, white + white needles, formed at room temperature - small,prism like Water - white powder + white...

  51. Cellular Respiration

    fermentation The end products of Cellular respiration are water and carbon dioxide as its waste products. Fermentation end products are Carbon dioxide and Ethanol. 3. Compare the alcoholic fermentation of glucose, sucrose and starch 4. Define the following terms: Carbohydrates: member of the class of...

  52. Venezuelan problems

    present Venezuela imports Brazilian ethanol to mix with gasoline distributed in the eastern part of the country, in preference to methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE), an oxygenate additive which is a pollutant. The Venezuelans "are planning to add eight percent ethanol to petrol in the first instance," said...

  53. Corn deep processing technology

    rice extraction oil the extraction of oil Co-Products of the Dry Milling Industry Corn is about two -thirds starch, which is converted to ethanol and carbon dioxide during a distilling and fermentation process.The remaining nutrients in corn, such as protein, fat, minerals and vitamins, are concentrated...

  54. Biological active peptide research

    rapeseed protein hydrolysate on pH value after adjustment for 4 column, use the same pH value of deionized water after being acquitted, again with 85% ethanol solvent desorption, protein recovery rate was 66.7%.The palm oil mill (http://www.palmmill.com)crude peptide (crude rapeseed peptides, CRPs) taste...

  55. Sugar Industry in India 2014 - Global Region Industry size, share, trends, growth and analysis

    by-products, and the sugar industry is considered as the chief source of raw material for ethanol production in India. To meet the rising demand of ethanol, sugar plants receive government aid which is facilitating ethanol production, in turn benefiting the overall sugar industry. There are various challenges...

  56. jjaajaj

    Directors approved their Rural Renaissance Zone application and designated a “Gratiot-Montcalm County Renaissance Zone.” Background on Michigan’s Ethanol and Biodiesel Situation Biobased products are non-food, non-feed agricultural chemical products provided as raw materials for various industries....

  57. Mitochondria

    lactic acid. This type of fermentation is called lactic acid fermentation. In yeast, the waste products are ethanol and carbon dioxide. This type of fermentation is known as alcoholic or ethanol fermentation. The ATP generated in this process is made by substrate phosphorylation, which is phosphorylation...

  58. Algae

    This trick could come in handy in the production of biofuels like cellulosic ethanol, where expensive enzymes are needed to break down tough cellulose and turn it into simpler sugars that can then be converted to ethanol, Wobbe said. It could also be useful in making biodiesel, since C. reinhardtii...

  59. The Biggest Factor in Rising Costs

    cellulose that can be turned into ethanol and other biofuels. Scientists say the microbe could provide a significant portion of the nation's transportation fuel if production can be scaled up. The cyanobacterium is potentially a very inexpensive source for sugars to use for ethanol and designer fuels. Cyanobacteria...

  60. Supply and Demand in Agriculture Sector Case Study of Wheat’s Supply and Demand

    Market 6 Temporary Reason for wheat price raises 6 Permanent Reasons for wheat price raises 7 1. Higher corn prices caused by rapidly expanding ethanol production 7 2. The declining value of the U.S. dollar 8 3. The decline in world grain carryovers since 1999 9 Middle East Situation 10 Conclusion...