Pipe liners and pipefitters, not plumbers, construct or lay, pipelines and refieries. This includes destileris.
Ethonal does requier pipe which is simlar to the grades used for pipelines.
It would requier speacal grades of plastic pipe, not pvc, to meet the pressure and flexablity requirments of a pipeline. Most patrolume, refined or crude, well eat away at the pipelines and pumps.
Biomass,,,, The use of just shelled corn leaves a fast mass of biomass in the fileds. Green corn sillage has much more bio mass. in fact cows would sometimes get drunk on fermented sillage. <<HIC>>
Fermentation requiers a quanity of water for the culture to work and convert the sugars into ethanol. Wells are not a good source of this water. Rivers would be a more renewable sorce of this water and would requier some treatment. Wells drop the water table and make near by wells dry up. This is not good if it’s your well.
Treated waste water from sewage plants could be used and piped to the ethanol plants. No one will drink the ethanol anyway. <<SMILE>> I hope.
This would solve two problems at once. Supply water for ethanol and get ried of sewage plant wast water. Maybe the raw sewage could be fremented into ethanol. <<GRIN>> SOLIDS ! !
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If you are talking waste oil from a large industrial cooking facility the cost is free… People are converting this to BioDiesel now @ $.30 gallon total cost. Engines that can run on straight cooking oil are not available to the public.
If present economics are the only factor we should stick with petroleum. It is presently the cheapest resource. The real issue is if one gets a new motor-fuel like Ethanol online will economies of scale and improved methods of production eventually make it cheaper than petroleum?
The world is full of oil. But much of it is in remote areas with rough terrain (such as Nevada, Alaska, etc.) not serviced by present infrastructure. The cost to produce from these areas will be higher than foreign oil.
Also- Ethanol can be made by Pan-American farmers. It is renewable. It can be transported over land by train. An ethanol tanker spill would evaporate on land, dissipate at sea. Much of South American land can grow corn at low cost.
I purchased a bio-diesel plant from freedom-fuels (www.freedomfuels.net) for $4000. Now I pay roughly 15 cents a gallon on diesel fuel. My F-250 and F-450 cost nearly eighteen thousand dollars a year to fuel; now I pay about eight hundred dollars a year on methanol which is added to the used cooking oil. I am not sure of the legality of this fuel due to no road tax. I was told by a lawyer it is perfectly legal since it is homemade and there is no act of sale, but who can trust lawyers.
Despite popular beliefs, bio-diesel releases less harmful toxins than gasoline. If you didn’t know, bio-diesel is made from used cooking oil. I pick it up for free from waste treatment companies. Restaurants pay to have the oil disposed of. In theory I could make money and fuel at the same time. I do not see why this hasn’t caught on. I get 4 mpg greater than before. The only downside is that the truck smells like french fries going down the road, but then again diesel fumes aren’t any better.