Ethyl-Alcohol
www.Ethyl-Alcohol.com

We buy, sell, broker and soon, will be making our own E100 Ethanol (also referred to as "Grain Alcohol," "Pure Ethanol," "Ethyl-Alcohol," "Neat Ethanol" or "Anhydrous Ethanol") through our company's "turnkey" ethanol plant project development services and fuel brokering services.  Our turnkey services include one or more of the following; ethanol plant feasibility studies/economic analysis, project design, engineering, development and financing/investment, feedstock supply, and e100 ethanol marketing 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 energy and fuel-saving technologies including; absorption chillers, cogeneration, trigeneration power and energy systems, Demand Side Management, Energy Conservation Measures and Waste Heat Recovery.  Our turn-key project solutions that include all or part of the following: 

• Engineering and Economic Feasibility Studies 

• Project Design, Engineering & Permitting

• Project Construction

• Project Funding & Financing Options

• Shared/Guaranteed Savings program with no capital requirements. 

• Project Commissioning 

• Operations & Maintenance 

For more information: call us at: 832-758-0027

E100 Ethanol and the Renewable Fuels Standard

On August 8, 2005, President Bush signed the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 6) into law. The comprehensive energy legislation includes a nationwide Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) that will double the use of ethanol and biodiesel by 2012.

Under the Renewable Fuels Standard, a small percentage of our nation's fuel supply will be provided by renewable, domestic fuels including ethanol and biodiesel, providing a positive roadmap for reduced consumer fuel prices, increased energy security, and growth in rural America.  The Renewable Fuels Standard is the result of several years of negotiations between the ethanol industry, oil industry, Federal government, state interests, environmentalists, agriculture and consumers over the best way to encourage a greater contribution from the renewable fuel industry to our nation's energy needs.

The increased use of renewable fuels will expand U.S. fuel supplies while easing an overburdened refining industry. While no new oil refineries have been built in the U.S. since 1976, nearly 100 ethanol production facilities have been built during this time, adding critical volume to the gasoline market. As E100 Ethanol and B100 Biodiesel are blended with gasoline and diesel after the refining process, they directly increase domestic fuel capacity.

The Renewable Fuels Standard provisions are as follows:

• Establishes a Renewable Fuels Standard that starts at 4 billion gallons in 2006 and increases to 7.5 billion gallons in 2012.

Year	Renewable Fuels (billions of gallons)
2006	4.0
2007	4.7
2008	5.4
2009	6.1
2010	6.8
2011	7.4
2012	7.5

• Provides for 2.78% by volume renewable fuel use in 2006 if federal regulations have not yet been promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• Provides that beginning in 2013, a minimum of 250 million gallons a year of cellulosic derived ethanol be included in the Renewable Fuels Standard.

• Provides refiners flexibility by creating a credit trading program that allows refiners to use renewable fuels where and when it is most efficient and cost-effective for them to do so. The credit trading program will result in lower costs to refiners and thus, consumers. Renewable Fuels Standard credits have a lifespan of 12 months. Every gallon of cellulose-derived ethanol is equal to 2.5 gallons of renewable fuel.

• The law exempts small refineries (defined as facilities where the average daily crude oil throughput does not exceed 75,000 barrels per day) from the Renewable Fuels Standard program until January 1, 2011. Small refineries are able to opt in to the program and generate credits as do other refineries.

• Requires annual studies on seasonal variations in renewable fuel use. Requires regulations to ensure that at least 25% of the annual renewable fuel obligation be met in each season should seasonal variations exist. California is exempted, but refiners in the state must still use the requisite amount of renewable fuels in any given year.

• Protects consumers with a waiver provision in the event the economy or environment would be severely harmed because of the Renewable Fuels Standard.

• The reformulated gasoline (RFG) 2.0 wt.% oxygenate standard under the Clean Air Act is eliminated 270 days after enactment.

• Enhances the air quality performance standards established in the RFG program.

• Creates grant and loan guarantee programs for cellulose ethanol.

• Creates grant and loan programs for ethanol production from sugar.

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