Ethanol Production and Other Fuel News

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In the mid-1980s, ethanol industry experts were concerned that large, centralized ethanol production facilities would be logistically inefficient.

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Centralized Ethanol Production

A new 60 million gallon per year ethanol plant in South Point, OH; a 40-million-gallon facility in Loudon, TN; and a 20-million-gallon factory near Franklin, KY will boost national production of fuel alcohol to an estimated 600 million gallons annually. But the trend toward large, centralized production facilities is worrying many ethanol industry experts, who point to the high cost (and fuel consumed as a result) of shipping grain to — and freighting alcohol from — the plants. A network of small- to medium-sized regional distillers would be more efficient, they say

Tallow Tree Oil

  • Published on Jan 1, 1983
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