The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce … gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the … incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion that can reach to 85 percent of the mix. This situation has prompted …

The need to decrease the United States’ dependency on oil has pushed ethanol to the forefront of energy sources. In the … U.S., corn is used to make ethanol. Corn-based ethanol production has been profitable over the past few years, but there … in prices, which has given way to ethanol production by other sources of raw materials like sugarcane. Sugarcane ethanol …

Ethanol has been recently of great interest worldwide due to two main reasons. First, it is a viable alternative to oil … products, used in light vehicles, which price has been substantially raised in the last years. In second place because ethanol … leadership of ethanol production for the United States, it is internationally recognized as the leading country to develop its …

assessed in terms of the levels of physical-assets performance it presents across three-defined ethanol production clusters …. Results show similar levels of asset performance presented by the in-operation ethanol enterprises, despite regional features …

The production of ethanol has increased in United States and Brazil in recent years, because of incentives to reduce … gas consumption. In Brazil, there is a big program to use ethanol both as a single fuel or an additive to gas. In US, the … incentive is to use ethanol combined to gas in proportion that can reach to 85 percent of the mix. This situation has prompted …

recovery. Thus, the aim of this study is to assess the incorporation of double-effect distillation in ethanol production, and …

This study carried out an exergetic analysis of a proposed ethanol production scheme in which a new process – enzymatic … conventional ethanol production plant without hydrolysis, a conventional plant combined with hydrolysis and hydrolysate … with their exergetic cost. For the conventional process, in which ethanol and surplus electricity are the major products, a …