Sunday, December 7, 2008

What is bioethanol? where does it come from?

Bioethanol is ethanol issue of biological and agriculture origin. It is not derived from agriculture called "organic." The prefix "bio" means simply that it is produced from living matter (plants). It is used as biofuel (or agrofuel) in gasoline engines. It is a source of energy from agriculture and belonging to the family of renewable energy. The plants containing sucrose (beet, cane sugar ...) or starch (wheat, corn ...) can be converted to bioethanol, produced by fermentation of sugar extracted from sugar plant or enzymatic hydrolysis of starch content in cereals. Are generally chain sugar "to describe the production of bioethanol. This ethanol plant is nothing other than ethyl alcohol, the same as that found in all alcoholic beverages! Compared to the "oil" to produce crude vegetable oil and biodiesel (ethyl ester of vegetable oil or EEHV), the "sugar" is by far the most prosperous in the world, mainly in Brazil, where bioethanol sugar cane covers 22% of national needs for fuel, also in Sweden, where the sale of superethanol, gasoline contains 5% bioethanol (made from sugar cane). In the U.S., over 10% of gasoline contains ethanol (mainly corn) to 10%.



Picture of cane sugar









Picture of beet sugar


1 comment:

Unknown said...

Bloggers strålende indsats er virkelig mærkbar. Alle kan nemt forstå de tanker.
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