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Ethanol Buzz Fuels Planning By Colonial Pipeline Company
By Mr Ethanol | October 3, 2008
PR Web:
Amid the clamor of national debate over how best to reduce reliance on oil, the call to replace petroleum with ethanol made enough noise recently to attract government and industry attention. In response, a major U.S. pipeline company, Colonial, began its study of the feasibility of introducing alternative fuels, such as ethanol, to pipeline shipments.
To manage the study, Colonial Pipeline uses geographic information system (GIS) technology. GIS software by ESRI provides a framework for understanding every element of a particular situation based on geographic location and relationships. For example, ethanol production centers are mostly in the Midwest–far from consumers and not in direct reach of many existing pipelines. Colonial uses GIS to find the best opportunities for tying producers to pipelines and terminals and, eventually, retail gas stations.
“The tedious process of shuffling through paper maps and relying on manual interpretation has become an efficient process of spatial analysis when we put all the information into the GIS,” said Chad Zamarin, GIS analyst with Colonial Pipeline. “We run spatial queries to identify which ethanol producers connect to railroads and, in turn, connect to our pipeline and integrate that analysis into our business models to identify the best opportunity.”
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