It is this natural process that puts the bubbles in champagne and beer, and the holes in baked bread. Using round numbers, the average ethanol plant generates about 150,000 metric tons per year.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. This year begins the ninth year of cellulosic ethanol mandates in the U.S ...

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His research group has shown how carbon dioxide can be converted to ethanol by means of electrocatalysis. Assuming green ...

Its advanced controller can regulate up to four vessels simultaneously, 120 process loops in all. Here we demonstrate one facet of its versatility—a technique for inducing ethanol production in ...

Fermentation is an anaerobic process: close anaerobicAnaerobic processes occur in the absence of oxygen. glucose → ethanol + carbon dioxide Yeast provides the enzymes required for fermentation.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL; Richland, Wash.; announced a three-year collaborative project with ...

When ethanol is oxidised by microbes ... As well as the gain of oxygen through the oxidation process, hydrogen atoms have been reduced. When alcohols are gently heated with a mixture of potassium ...

The Stable Isotope Lab at the Institute for Alpine and Artic Research (INSTAAR) uses ethanol cold traps during its analysis of ice core samples and at the end of the process, they are left with a ...