Ethanol Blender Pumps
- with the results of the Optimal Ethanol blend-level investigation
pointing to higher mileage results for non-flex-fuel (and
flex-fuel) vehicles, there will be a push hopefully in the near future to
have more service stations upgraded to include ethanol blender
pumps. Ethanol blender pumps are already showing up in towns
around the U.S. Britton, South Dakota has a service station with an
ethanol blender pump that dispenses mid-range ethanol blends -
from E-10 to E-85, including E-20, E-30 and E-40 blends.
During the test noted above, it was found that the
non-flex-fuel vehicles (97% of the millions of U.S. vehicles on the road
today) had no engine faults or other problems until the higher blends were
reached. E-40 appears to be the peak of optimum fuel efficiency. For more
details on the report be sure to click on the link below for the full
report. Also, to learn more about the ethanol blender pumps, the optimal
ethanol blends report, and ethanol in general, be sure to visit the Web
site for the
American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) - ethanol.org.
Ethanol blender pumps allow station owners to
install the blender pumps along with an ethanol E-85 tank and their normal
gasoline tank, and via the blender pump provide their customers with the
desired blend of E-10, E-20, E-30, E-40, and the already popular E-85
blend (for use in flex-fuel vehicles). Congress needs to help with the
effort by passing legislation that removes the E-10 barrier and opening up
the ethanol choices to consumers for use in their vehicles they own,
TODAY!
...As note in the October issue of
EthanolToday, "the Ethanol
Fact Book addresses issues regarding the ethanol tax incentive,
energy security and oil import reductions, economic impacts and
benefits to the U.S. Treasury, greenhouse gas reduction and
environmental benefits, and advancements in cellulose conversion
technologies." The article went on to quote Doug Durante, Executive
Director of the
Clean Fuels Development Coalition(CFDC),
"Ethanol is a complex and multi-faceted issue that needs to be
viewed in its entirety. Its value is truly the sum of its parts, and
this fact book clearly defines the energy security, economic,
environmental, and national benefits derived from our
ethanol industry."
Question: Is the focus of corn use in ethanol production heavily
impacting food prices? Here are two websites that express their view
on the situation. You decide...
UK 's First Ethanol Plant Opens In Eastern
England
...here's an approach to making ethanol from a
locally grown crop - sugar beet. Other plants are
planned (or are under construction) in the U.K. where the feed stock
will be wheat
Looking to find out more about the
ethanol production using sugar beets
as
feedstocks, and/or the wheat? Be sure to use the
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ethanol news related to sugar beet and/or
wheat feedstocks to produce ethanol. Good luck with your search, and thank
you for visiting our site, we hope you'll visit again soon.
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A recent comment by the head of the oil and gas lobby association,
American Petroleum Institute (API), President Red Cavaney took issue
with the national promotion and the long term use of 85%
ethanol (E85) at the
Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance
conference in St. Louis.
...use this Google search to find out more on
President Red Cavaney's comments and the
Advancing Renewable
Energy...conference, or ethanol in
general. Good luck with your search, we hope you visit us again.
Topics that we will be covering in the Ethanol-related news and
articles sections of this Web site will include the following: Lignocellulosic plant material, lignocellulose, and biomass
crops such as miscanthus and switch grass; the biofuel industry,
bio-renewable technology; and the renewable-fuels industry.
From the
BlueFire Investor Center Web page, "...BlueFire is established to
deploy the proven Arkenol Process Technology...for
the profitable conversion of cellulosic waste materials to
ethanol..."
...use this Google search to find more reaction
to President Bush's call for a 20% reduction in
gasoline usage in the U.S. by 2017 - and in
particular where
ethanol, renewable fuel, and alternative fuel
figure into the 2007 Initiatives.
In addition, keep tabs on the newAlternative Fuel
Standard (AFS) which increases the scope of the current
Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) - another major
part of the President's plan for the growth of renewable and
alternative fuel sources. Good luck with your search, we hope you visit us again.
IMPORTANT NEWS - Cellulosic
Ethanol- NEWS FROM NEW MILFORD
CONNECTICUT:
More press covering the breaking story on
American Energy Enterprises, Inc.'s proposal to build
a cellulosic ethanol plant in the town of New
Milford, Connecticut: American Energy Enterprises has offered
to purchase the town-owned former Century Brass mill property (known
now as the Century Enterprise Center). The proposed cellulosic
ethanol plant would be build on the property.
The Waterbury Republican-Americanhas published a similar
article, 3/15/2008, by Reporter Rick Harrison... (as of this update
the article does not appear to be published on their Internet site and
may temporarily be available only in print). Rick Harrison has noted "American
Energy Enterprises Inc. has proposed to buy
the former Century Brass Mill property from the town for $4.5 million
and construct what could be the country’s first commercial cellulosic
ethanol distillery on the contaminated site." Rick goes on to quote
comments from New Milford town officials, a university professor,
company officials and their legal council. [We will
update this summary with a direct link to the article once it is
available. For now,
here is a link to the Waterbury
Republican-American Website.]
The News-Times (Danbury, CT)
3/11/2008
article:
A local company to ours is proposing to create a
cellulosic ethanol plant at a town-owned mill property, Century Brass.
The
News-Times article by Lynda Wellman, Staff Writer, noted that
American Energy Enterprises Inc.
chairman Christopher Brown made an offer to pay $4.5 million for the
Century Brass mill property and that there are plans to invest more
that $100 million to operate the plant...
click here for The New-Times article.
A follow-up
study by several university teams has been published and shows
results of their study started in 2000 & 2001 where 10 farmers
were contracted to grow switchgrass with the
goal in mind to become a feedstock for producing
cellulosic ethanol.
The results are interesting - $60 per ton (on-farm costs) were
recorded, and as low as $39 per ton for farmers experienced in
growing switchgrass. And, the scientists reported that when
switchgrass is used in cellulosic ethanol production, it
produces 5 times more energy that it takes to produce the
cellulosic ethanol. NOTE: The cost per ton does not include
any costs beyond those associated with on-farm costs (see
report for details).
What is noteworthy is that this study (in two parts) started
back as early as 2000 before all the hype of cellulosic
ethanol and feedstock such as switchgrass.
...use the Google Search
to find out more on switchgrass and
other feedstock that is being used (or considered for
use) in the production of cellulosic ethanol.
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