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E100 Ethanol
www.EthanolIndustries.com
The Renewable
Fuels Standard requires increasingly greater amounts of: E100 Ethanol to be added to gasoline
and B100
Biodiesel to be added to petroleum diesel.
We provide "turnkey" ethanol plant project
feasibility, design, engineering, development and financing services.
Unlike most companies, we
are equipment supplier/vendor neutral. This means we help our
clients select the best equipment for their specific application. This
approach provides our customers with superior performance, decreased
operating expenses and increased return on investment.
Our company also offers other renewable
energy technologies including; absorption
chillers, cogeneration, trigeneration
power and energy systems, Demand Side
Management, Energy
Conservation Measures and Waste Heat
Recovery.
We
provide Cooler, Cleaner, Greener Power
& Energy Solutions™ project development
services that are Kyoto Protocol compliant and generate clean energy and
significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Unlike most companies, we are
equipment supplier/vendor neutral. This means we help our clients select the
best equipment for their specific application. This approach provides our
customers with superior performance, decreased operating expenses and
increased return on investment.
Cogeneration
Technologies, located in Houston, Texas, provides
project development services that generate clean energy and significantly
reduce greenhouse gas emissions and
carbon dioxide emissions. Included
in this are our
turnkey "ecogeneration™" products
and services which includes renewable
energy technologies, waste to energy,
waste to watts™ and waste
heat recovery solutions. Other project development
technologies include; Anaerobic Digester,
Anaerobic Lagoon, Biogas
Recovery, BioMethane, Biomass
Gasification, and Landfill Gas To
Energy, project development services.
Products and
services provided by Cogeneration Technologies includes the following power
and energy project development services:
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Project
Engineering Feasibility & Economic Analysis Studies
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Engineering,
Procurement and Construction
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Environmental
Engineering & Permitting
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Project
Funding & Financing Options; including Equity Investment, Debt
Financing, Lease and Municipal Lease
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Shared/Guaranteed
Savings Program with No Capital Investment from Qualified Clients
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Project
Commissioning
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3rd
Party Ownership and Project Development
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Long-term
Service Agreements
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Operations
& Maintenance
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Green
Tag (Renewable Energy Credit, Carbon Dioxide Credits, Emission Reduction
Credits) Brokerage Services; Application and Permitting
We
are Renewable Energy
Technologies specialists and develop clean power and energy projects that
will generate a "Renewable
Energy Credit," Carbon Dioxide
Credits and Emission
Reduction Credits. Some of our products and services solutions and
technologies include; Absorption Chillers,
Adsorption Chillers, Automated
Demand Response, Biodiesel Refineries,
Biofuel Refineries, Biomass
Gasification, BioMethane, Canola
Biodiesel, Coconut Biodiesel, Cogeneration,
Concentrating Solar Power, Demand
Response Programs, Demand Side
Management, Energy
Conservation Measures, Energy Master
Planning, Engine Driven Chillers,
Geothermal Heatpumps, Groundsource
Heatpumps, Solar CHP, Solar
Cogeneration, Rapeseed Biodiesel, Solar
Electric Heat Pumps, Solar
Electric Power Systems, Solar
Heating and Cooling, Solar
Trigeneration, Soy Biodiesel, Trigeneration,
and Watersource Heatpumps.
Unlike
most companies, we are equipment supplier/vendor neutral. This means we help
our clients select the best equipment for their specific application. This
approach provides our customers with superior performance, decreased
operating expenses and increased return on investment.
For more information: call us at: 832-758-0027
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US
ETHANOL FACTS
The US
ethanol industry is the fastest growing energy industry in the
world. Ethanol is blended in
30% of our nation's gasoline. An annual record of 3.4 billion
gallons of ethanol was produced in 2004.
As of
September 8, 2004, the US had 81 plants in operation and with a
capacity of 3.4 billion gallons per year. 16 additional plants are
currently under construction. The plants under construction will
add over 800 million gallons of annual production capacity.
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Year
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Ethanol
Produced
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Grain
Used
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1997
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1.3
billion gallons
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500
million bushels
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1998
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1.4
billion gallons
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538
million bushels
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1999
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1.47
billion gallons
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565
million bushels
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2000
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1.63
billion gallons
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627
million bushels
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2001
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1.77
billion gallons
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681
million bushels
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2002
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2.13
billion gallons
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819
million bushels
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2003
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2.81
billion gallons
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1.077
billion bushels
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2004
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3.4
billion gallons
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1.22
billion bushels
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From the 2004 Renewable Fuels
Association's 2004 Ethanol Industry Outlook
Among the
accomplishments of the U.S. fuel ethanol industry:
Annual
record of 3.41 billion gallons produced in 2004;
U.S. fuel
ethanol use reached a record 3.57 billion gallons in 2004
(estimated);
Ethanol
use reduces U.S. gasoline prices by nearly 30 cents per gallon;
Currently,
81 ethanol plants can produce over 3.6 billion gallons annually;
With 16
plants under construction, annual production capacity will soon
expand to 4.4 billion gallons;
Farmer-owned
ethanol plants account for 40% of total industry capacity;
Ethanol
use consumed more than 1.26 billion bushels of corn in 2004;
Ethanol
production raised corn prices and, thereby, reduced federal farm
program cost by $3.2 billion dollars in 2004;
Ethanol
production supports over 147,000 U.S. jobs;
Ethanol
produces 167% of the fossil energy that is used to grow, harvest,
transport and process the grain into ethanol;
Ethanol
use reduced over 7 million tons of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas
emissions in 2004;
Every 1
Btu of petroleum fuel used to produce ethanol generates 13.2 Btus
of ethanol.
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What is Ethanol?
Ethanol (ethyl alcohol, grain alcohol, EtOH) is a clear, colorless liquid. In dilute aqueous solution, it has a somewhat sweet flavor, but in more concentrated solutions it has a burning taste. Ethanol (CH3CH2OH) is made up of a group of chemical compounds whose molecules contain a hydroxyl group, -OH, bonded to a carbon atom. Ethanol made from cellulosic biomass materials instead of traditional feedstocks (starch crops) is called bioethanol.
The Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 mandated the sale of oxygenated fuels in areas with unhealthy levels of carbon monoxide. Since that time, there has been strong demand for ethanol as an oxygenate blended with gasoline. In the United States each year, approximately 2 billion gallons are added to gasoline to increase octane and improve the emissions quality of gasoline.
Blends of at least 85% ethanol are considered alternative fuels under the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct). E85, a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline, is used in flexible fuel vehicles (FFVs) that are currently offered by most major auto manufacturers. FFVs can run on gasoline, E85, or any combination of the two and qualify as alternative fuel vehicles under EPAct regulations.
In some areas, ethanol is blended with gasoline to form an E10 blend (10% ethanol and 90% gasoline).
Chemical properties: Ethanol is ethane with a hydrogen molecule replaced by a hydroxyl radical.
How Ethanol is Made
at an Ethanol Plant
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