Ethanol production: Used For Industrial Use and Beverages As Well as Foods

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Ethanol production has been known to mankind since as long as human beings have inhabited the earth but modern ethanol production has seen considerable changes as well as refinements that have upgraded as well as improved efficiency in production means. Ethanol may be used for industrial use, for beverages and for food and each has its own means of production though they essentially follow the same steps.

With ethanol production, it is possible to create two main co-products which are carbon dioxide as well as distillers’ grain. When the food grain is fermented, there is a great deal of carbon dioxide produced and emitted and many an ethanol plant will collect this carbon dioxide and cleanse it off any residual alcohol and then compresses as well as sells it because there is much demand for it in carbonated beverages as well as being wanted to flash freeze meat.

Used Mainly For Fuels in the USA

In the United States ethanol production is mainly for the manufacture of fuels, by blending ethanol with gasoline and thereby increases the blend’s octane or to produce a fuel that is cleaner to burn. The majority of ethanol production plants in the US use the dry milling process which entails milling, liquefaction, fermentation, distillation, dehydration, and denaturing of the food grains.

Distillers’ grains, both in wet and dry condition, contains a lot of protein as well as other nutrients and have much value for being used as livestock feed ingredients. Ethanol production does not create waste and it actually adds value to the corn since it converts it into a better quality product. Ethanol production has been going on in different countries around the world and it has had varied amount of success and it is believed that the cost of ethanol production in Brazil is a meager 21 cents per liter. Compared to this, ethanol production in the US is considerably higher given their use of corn instead of sugarcane.

When ethanol is produced using cane it would normally require about a ton of cane to produce 70 liters of ethanol though it is also possible to get higher yields and a side effect of using sugarcane for ethanol production is that it impacts sugarcane prices and in fact, stabilizes them and this is of great value to developing and third world countries. In addition, the benefits of ethanol production are also felt on a country’s national economy besides affecting the sugarcane industry’s economic system.