Start Date
4-1980 8:00 AM
Description
Foreign crude oil imports currently provide raw material for production of half of the liquid fuels consumed in the United States and represents a cash outflow of almost $8 million per hour. Recent events have dramatically illustrated the substantial vulnerability of such imports. Ethanol is a liquid fuel that can substitute domestic renewable resources for imported petroleum products now and increasingly in the next few years.
Alcohol fuels and in particular gasohol, a blend of 10% agriculturally derived anhydrous ethanol and 90% unleaded gasoline, will in the near term be the primary alcohol fuel.
This paper describes the market for gasohol produced from fermentation ethanol, the basic ethanol production process, effective feedstocks, typical plant design and a review of the state of the art.
Alcohol Fuels for Spaceship Earth
Foreign crude oil imports currently provide raw material for production of half of the liquid fuels consumed in the United States and represents a cash outflow of almost $8 million per hour. Recent events have dramatically illustrated the substantial vulnerability of such imports. Ethanol is a liquid fuel that can substitute domestic renewable resources for imported petroleum products now and increasingly in the next few years.
Alcohol fuels and in particular gasohol, a blend of 10% agriculturally derived anhydrous ethanol and 90% unleaded gasoline, will in the near term be the primary alcohol fuel.
This paper describes the market for gasohol produced from fermentation ethanol, the basic ethanol production process, effective feedstocks, typical plant design and a review of the state of the art.
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