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The Details Of Ethanol
By Mr Ethanol | November 22, 2007
KOMU-TV:
Ethanol. It’s one of the most common topics. Even with all the attention, ethanol’s origins and effects are still commonly misunderstood.
Ethanol seems to be one of those words people throw around, but don’t fully grasp. We’ve heard everything: It’s good for the environment; it’s bad for the environment; it hurts your car; it helps your car; you save money; you lose money.
Come Jan. 1, it will be an even bigger topic of conversation. The state’s E-10 Mandate will go into effect. That means most gasoline - depending on its octane level - will contain 10 percent ethanol. But that won’t change things as much as you might think.
“I dare say most of my members are using E-10, and you don’t know it. And that’s because ethanol is fairly cheap right now,” said Ron Leone, Executive Director of Missouri Petroleum Marketers Association.
Eight states in the country have an E-10 Mandate; Missouri will be the fourth to implement it.
But, Missouri is the only state with a price trigger in the mandate, put in to protect consumers.
“The fuel retailers - only have to sell E-10, 10 percent ethanol only when the price is the same or lower than the price of what we call unblended fuel,” explained Leone.
One of Missouri’s newest ethanol plants is the Poet Biorefining Plant in Laddonia.
“We grind about 50 thousand corn bushels a day, and we make about 150 thousand gallons of ethanol a day. Everyday,” said Robin Venn, General Manager of Poet Biorefining, “So, the ethanol process starts with corn. We grind that up into a flour. Mix it with recycled waters in the process, and we end up with what we call a beer. The beer is then run through distillation columns, and we end up with 190 proof coming out of there. We run it through a molecular sieve to pull out the rest of the water, and we get 200 proof,” explained Amy Vanberschot, Technical Manager at Poet Biorefining.
It’s pretty potent, so the plant mixes it with a little gas to poison it. Therefore, no one can use it for anything but fuel.
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