Ethanol Fuel‚ the Green Myth Who in the United States of America does not like a good ear of corn or two to eat? It is a food staple in many of our households throughout this great country and helps to feed the world’s ever growing population. It is also used to produce a biofuel and gasoline fuel additive called ethanol‚ and is being promoted as environmentally friendlier‚ has less of a carbon footprint on the earth then fossil fuels like gasoline and oil do‚ and will fully reduce our dependency
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The Effects of Ethanol on the Economy ECON 203 May 3‚ 2007 The Effects of Ethanol on the Economy Corn crops are responsible for producing numerous valuable resources and products and therefore‚ corn is a vital part of the nation’s agricultural industry. One of the most valuable products derived from corn is ethanol. Due to the demand for ethanol corn has experienced an increase in value. Farmers are able to charge
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are looking into is ethanol or CH3CH2OH which is the chemical make up of ethanol. Ethanol is a clear colorless liquid that at low levels has a sweet taste‚ but at levels needed for fuel use it has a burning taste. Since 1990‚ when the government decided that gasoline burned had unsafe levels of carbon monoxide‚ ethanol has been added to gasoline in order to make it a higher octane level‚ burn cleaner‚ and to over all improve the emissions of gasoline. In order for an ethanol mixture to be considered
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Analysis of Ethanol in Moonshine | Using the GC-MS | Jennifer Greene | ------------------------------------------------- 4 May 2012 ------------------------------------------------- 4 May 2012 Introduction: In this experiment gas chromatography is applied to separate the water-ethanol mixture. This method is often used in the determination of alcohol in blood or urine. One obvious application is when law enforcement agencies need to determine whether or not someone is inebriated
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experiments will be conducted to evaluate ethanol as a fuel‚ the experiments are Fermentation and Calorimetry. Fermentation will find the best combination of sugar and yeast for optimum ethanol production and the Calorimetry experiments test ethanol against other alcohols and fuels to see how it matches up in terms of energy production. Fermentation shows glucose and baker’s yeast as the fastest producers of ethanol and the calorimetry proves that ethanol and other alcohols produce more heat energy
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The Extraction of Bio-ethanol from Apple (Malus domesticus) and Banana (Musa accuminata Colla) Peelings through the Process of Fermentation and Distillation Abstract Apple (Malus domesticus) and banana (Musa accuminata Colla) peelings are common household waste products. This study sought to extract bioethanol from these two peelings and to compare which sample can produce more bioethanol. About 400 grams of apple and banana peeling was obtained from the 1 kilogram bought from the supermarket
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Using ethanol as an alternate fuel‚ or fuel extender includes a heterogenous agglomeration of advantages and disadvantages. On cars: ethanol is preferable to lead as an octane booster. A 10% addition of ethanol to petrol is more effective than lead at boosting octane rating (+2.5) and making car run smoother. It’s cheaper than lead‚ and ethanol-blended fuels leave no gummy deposits‚ thus keeps engine clean. Although a minimal 10% ethanol blend should be compatible with internal combustion engines
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Heat of Mixing: Ethanol and Water Abstract The temperature change when known amounts of water and ethanol were mixed was determined to see the enthalpy change in an isothermal and isobaric environment. Agreeable data was found compared to similar experiments. As the mole fraction increased of the solution so did the enthalpy until a certain limit of about 0.32. Since water’s structure and unique properties affect many aspects of a solution‚ the solutions enthalpy’s decreased at a certain time
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Carbohydrate: Ethanol from Sucrose Abstract The purpose of this lab was to demonstrate the fermentation process of ethanol from the substrate sucrose. To make ethanol from sucrose two enzymes invertase and zymase were used. Vacuum filtration and fractional distillation were performed to get a more concentrated solution. The density of ethanol was .825 g/mL with a percent composition of 85% pure ethanol. Introduction
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Balance (Non-reacting Systems) THR/WRU 1. A 40-mol-% aqueous ethanol solution is to be distilled into two streams: a distillate with 98% ethanol and a side stream with 60%. 98% of the alcohol in the feed is to be recovered in these two products; only 2% goes into the bottoms. If the bottoms product contains 2% ethanol‚ calculate the amount of the different streams per 1000 kmol of feed stream. Given: Recovery = 98% of ethanol in feed to distillate and side stream Feed‚ F xF = 0.40 Side
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