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This paper examines the possibilities of breaking into the cellulosic ethanol market in south Louisiana via strategic …
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This paper aims to evaluate the potential for electricity and ethanol production in Central America using sweet sorghum …
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The economic feasibility of producing ethanol from sweet sorghum juice is projected using Monte Carlo simulation models … to estimate the price ethanol plants will likely have to pay for sweet sorghum and the uncertain returns for ethanol … plants. Ethanol plants in high yielding regions will likely generate returns on assets of 11%-12% and in low yield areas the …
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The potential of three feedstocks: grain sorghum, sweet sorghum, and switchgrass for ethanol production in the top 26 …, final demand for ethanol, farm to wholesale marketing margin, and the derived demand price of feedstock. The calculated … study demonstrates that ethanol production from grain sorghum, sweet sorghum, and switchgrass in the Texas Panhandle Region …
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Biofuel production must increase to 36 billion gallons by the year 2022, according to government mandates. The majority of this fuel must be produced from “advanced” or second-generation biofuel feedstocks after 2015. Advanced biofuel feedstocks include annual crops such as sweet sorghum....
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system consists of the following processes: sweet sorghum cultivation, crude ethanol production, ethanol refining and by …-product utilization. The plant capacities of crude ethanol and pure ethanol, in different fractions of useful land, are optimized …. Assuming a minimum cost of investment, transport, operation and so on, the optimum capacity of the pure ethanol factory is 50 …
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Technological process of a pilot plant of solid substrate fermentation of refining ethanol from sweet sorghum stalk was … ethanol yield was 90% and the spent residue of fermentation can be converted to forage. In addition, Net Present Value (at … feasible. The ethanol price had highest effect on the changes of Internal Return Rate of the project. And annual operation cost …
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The global energy crisis and continual soaring prices of fossil fuels force people to seek the new and recycled alternative energy sources hard. Biodiesel oil as well as bioethanol fuel, as two new and clean fuels for environmental protection, have already been approved as substitutes for fuel...
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experimental results in the shaking flasks showed that the order of influence on improving ethanol yield was (NH4)2SO4>MgSO4>K2HPO4 … and ethanol content were 5h and 6.2% (v/v), respectively, and ethanol yield was 91.61%, which was increased by 9.73% than … determined optimum inorganic salts supplement dose could be used as a guide for commercial ethanol production. The fluidized bed …
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Suitability of sweet sorghum in Greece, where irrigation supply during crop development is limited as rainfall is scarce and evapotranspiration loss is high, is examined in relation with radiation availability. A two-year field experiment was conducted, in central Greece, imposing four soil...
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