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2013 Ethanol Futures and Predictions
Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 1:00 am on May 08 2013
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The U.S. Ethanol Industry survived and overcame a difficult 2012 that saw the end of the ethanol tax credits. Further hurting the ethanol industry was a drought that had a tremendously negative impact on U.S. corn production and prices, the primary source of fuel ethanol. Despite the setbacks experienced by the Ethanol Industry, current trends in the market are...
How Industrial Adsorption Works and The Most Common Processes
Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 11:30 am on April 09 2013
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Understanding the Adsorption Process
Adsorption is the process of adhesion used by atoms and molecules to attach themselves to a surface. It is a process that has been capitalized on by many industries and has become essential to producing many of the different everyday products people use. Below is an, “Industrial Adsorption Course 101,”...
2013 Ethanol Tax Credit Extension
Posted by Mr. Green at 11:02 am on January 03 2013
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Three Ethanol Tax Credits Are Extended For 2013
2013 begins on a positive note for the Ethanol, Biofuel, and Wind Energy Industries as the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 extended three ethanol tax credits for 2013 and extended the Wind Energy production tax credit.
Growth Energy, the group leading national awareness of ethanol, released the...
2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates Positions on Energy
Posted by Mr. Green at 11:15 am on November 01 2012
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2012 U.S. Presidential Candidates Mitt Romney (left) and Barack Obama (right).
With the 2012 U.S. Presidential election coming up on November 6th, some people might be wondering where the candidates Mitt Romney and Barack Obama stand on energy issues. Energy issues would include oil and gas, ethanol, alternative energy, etc. Here is a short list of energy sources...
E15 Ethanol Blends Are In… Another Choice of Fuel For Americans
Posted by Mr. Green at 1:41 pm on August 31 2012
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First E15 Pumps Are In, But Still Facing Challenges
E15 is a new blend of fuel that uses 15% ethanol in its blend, and it is currently approved to be sold as a fuel alongside E10 (10% ethanol blend, the fuel you find in almost every gas station in the U.S.). In July, the U.S. first saw an E15 pump appear in Lawrence Kansas signaling the beginning of a new type...
China Ends U.S. Dry Distiller Grains Dumping Investigation
Posted by Mr. Green at 12:15 pm on July 12 2012
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Investigation Dropped By Chinese Ethanol Plants After 18 Months
Dumping (in an economic context) usually occurs in International Trade when one country manufacturers a product and sells it to another country at a price below what they can manufacturer it at.
In China, three ethanol producers, AnHui Ethanol Co. Ltd., Jilin Fuel Alcohol Co. Ltd. and Meihekou Fukang...
Molecular Sieve and Zeolites: Their Roles in the Fukishima Nuclear Disaster
Posted by Mr. Green at 3:07 pm on June 28 2012
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Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Overview
On March 11, 2011 a 9.0 Earthquake, the fourth largest on record since 1900, occurred in the Pacific Ocean causing a series of large tsunamis to strike the eastern coast of Japan. Now called the Tohoku earthquake, it (and the subsequent tsunamis) caused one of the worst natural disasters on record with over 15,361 people killed,...
Molecular Sieve is Being Used to Improve Carbon Dating
Posted by Mr. Green at 1:39 pm on May 24 2012
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Molecular Sieve is Playing an Important Role in Redefining Contemporary Knowledge of Early Human History
Radioactive carbon dating was a technique developed by Willard Libby in 1949 (a discovery that won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry over a decade later) that can be used to date carbon based materials up to 60,000 years. This number is significant because it...
The Importance of Surface Area in Adsorbents
Posted by Mr. Green at 3:17 pm on May 10 2012
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Large Surface Area is Key to a Valuable Adsorbent
Why is surface area key to a quality adsorbent?
Before we talk about surface area it’s helpful to understand how adsorption works.
Adsorbents work by adsorbing liquids or vapors into pores on their surface. The adsorption process doesn’t truly absorb the vapor or liquid that’s running through...
Ethanol Plant: Molecular Sieve Bed Precautions
Posted by Mr. Green at 2:51 pm on April 25 2012
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6 Precautions to Consider While Dehydrating Ethanol
Purifying ethanol requires running your distilled ethanol through molecular sieve beds in order to produce over 99% pure ethanol. In order to dehydrate ethanol thoroughly most plants require that you have ten’s if not hundred’s of thousands of pounds of sieve installed in your vessels.
Making...
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- Top 6 Signs It’s Time to Change out the Sieve in Your Ethanol Plant
A List of Signs That Say It Is Time for New Sieve That time of year is...
- Measuring Working Capacity in an Ethanol Plant
How to Figure Out the Efficiency of Your Molecular Sieve Beds This article...
- The Future of Fuel...Cellulosic Ethanol (3)
Non Edible Plants and Municipal Solid Waste Can Be Turned Into Fuel Cellulosic...
- American Ethanol the Fuel of the...Past? (2)
Ethanol's First Rise and Fall Around the world the amount of ethanol production...
- Modern Molecular Sieve Dehydration Technology For Fuel Ethanol (2)
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- Top 6 Signs It’s Time to Change out the Sieve in Your Ethanol Plant (2)
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Part 3: Trends in Ethanol Energy Gains and the Energy Contributions of...
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How to Prepare Your Vessel for Unloading Molecular Sieve
Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 2:22 pm on April 19 2012
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8 Useful Guidelines Before Doing a Complete Molecular Sieve Change Out
You have decided to replace your molecular sieve, and now it’s time to load in what may be thousands upon thousands of pounds of molecular sieve in your vessel (of course the amount of sieve you load in depends on the size of your vessel). What can you do to prepare your vessel before unloading...
Before You Unload Your Molecular Sieve…
Posted by Mr. Green at 2:05 pm on April 05 2012
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8 Steps to Prepare Your Vessel for Unloading Molecular Sieve
You have decided to replace your molecular sieve, and now it’s time to load in what may be thousands upon thousands of pounds of molecular sieve in your vessel (of course the amount of sieve you load in depends on the size of your vessel). What can you do to prepare your vessel before unloading...
Arundo Donax: An Old Plant, A New Source Of Energy
Posted by Mr. Green at 3:31 pm on March 29 2012
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Great Biofuel Potential For A Non-Edible Plant
What is Arundo Donax?
Arundo Donax is a large cane plant that is native to Asia and parts of Africa. It is currently showing great potential as a biofuel producing plant, and as a feedstock for producing cellulosic ethanol. Despite being native to these portions of the world humans have brought it to Europe and...
Your Molecular Sieve Needs Support!
Posted by Mr. Ethanol at 2:39 pm on March 14 2012
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The Guide To Supporting Your Molecular Sieve Beds
The use of molecular sieve supports such as screens and ceramic balls are very important for the industrial use of molecular sieve. Ceramic balls prevent adsorbent from leaking on the screens that have been placed below them, and the screens keep the molecular sieve separate from the ceramic balls.
In an industrial...
Solutions Looking For A Problem: Nitrogen Lasers and Carbon Molecular Sieve
Posted by Mr. Green at 10:49 am on March 08 2012
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Carbon Molecular Sieve and Producing Nitrogen Lasers
First invented in 1960 the laser was first called the solution looking for a problem. More than fifty years later lasers have become an invaluable part of human technology. Today uses for lasers range from being used in material processing endeavors such as laser cutting, welding, and bending, to reading...
The Activated Carbon Standard
Posted by Mr. Green at 11:03 am on March 01 2012
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Carbon in Pulp Helps to Purify Gold
Gold is one of the most historically significant, valuable, and precious naturally occurring metals that exists here on Earth. Its history with humans has been both beautiful and tumultuous:a lot of people personally choose to wear gold as rings or other jewelry to symbolize marriage or wealth, while wars have been started over...
5A Molecular Sieve’s Role In Hydrogen Production
Posted by Mr. Green at 10:45 am on February 23 2012
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The Steam-Methane Reforming Process Purifies Hydrogen
Hydrogen, the most abundant element in the Universe (also the lightest) is actually rare to find in a pure form here on Earth. This is due to hydrogen’s willingness to bond with other atoms and molecules. Despite its abundance it needs to be separated from these other atoms and molecules in order to...
Molecular Sieve Crystal Structure Determines the Size of Its Pores
Posted by Mr. Green at 3:39 pm on February 09 2012
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Molecular Sieve Basics: Crystals Help Determine the Pore Size of Molecular Sieve
This article is a kind of a continuation on an article we wrote in 2011 that discusses the pores sizes of molecular sieve.
Molecular sieve are crystalline metal aluminosilicates that belong to the zeolite family. That means that the molecules and atoms that make up a molecular sieve...
The Mineral You’ve Probably Never Heard Of, But Couldn’t Live Without
Posted by Mr. Green at 2:44 pm on February 01 2012
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The Far Reaching Effect Zeolite Has On Everyday Human Lives
Some of the natural occurring forms of zeolite that can be seen on Earth.
Before reading this article here are four questions to consider:
Have you ever drank a glass of tap water?
Have you ever been to a hospital and seen someone receive medical oxygen?
Do you heat up your home with gas?
Have...
Removing Fluoride From Water
Posted by Mr. Green at 10:56 am on January 25 2012
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Activated Alumina Works To Lower Fluoride to Safe Levels in Drinking Water
Water fluoridation is a double edged sword. In the U.S. fluoride has been added to most water streams in order to help prevent tooth decay. (I should mention fluoride naturally occurs in a lot of drinking water sources throughout the world). However fluoride can be damaging to...
