An analysis is made of the national potential to convert and/or to retrofit existing plants to process their present feedstick into fuel alcohol in lieu of their originally designed final product. Categories of plants examined are distilleries, breweries, corn wet milling, beet and cane sugar mills, wineries, cheese whey, and other food processing. Outline descriptions are developed for a base-case plant in each of the industries found to be a viable contributor to a fuel alcohol program. These base-case plants are illustrative of plant size, estimated capital costs of conversion, operating costs, labor estimates for daily operation, and estimated time schedules for comparison purposes. The facilities described as convertible could begin making alcohol by 1982, with a total of 581 million gallons of ethanol identified by 1985 and an additional 300 million gallons being possible. Thus with current production, these additional volumes can largely meet the President's 1982 ethanol goal, and can contribute greatly to the 1985 goal. A glossary is included. (DePo)


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    Title :

    Fuel alcohol: report and analysis of plant conversion potential to fuel alcohol production


    Additional title:

    Alkoholkraftstoff: Bericht und Analyse der moeglichen Umstellung von Verfahrensanlagen fuer die Gewinnung von Alkoholkraftstoff


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1980


    Size :

    130 Seiten


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English





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