[Gasification] Producer Gas Driven Engine w/ Liquid Fuel Assist

[Ken Basterfield]

Peter and Mike,
My 30lb sucrose to 1 gallon of ethanol is based on my own home-brewing. 

The basic recipe was always 3lb sugar to I gallon water plus the fruit or
vegetable for the flavour. Yes, I have made parsnip wine and many other
obscure ones.

With a good yeast this would ferment out to dry and yield about 10% alcohol,
i.e. 1/10 gallon of ethanol. Therefore 30lbs sugar to 1 gallon of ethanol.

I am not sure how technology could dramatically improve on this yield. There
is no residual sugar in the finished brew.

I should qualify this, Imperial lbs and gallons, so a short change US gallon
would only require 4/5 of 30lb, 24lb sugar to a US gallon.

Ken
  



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[mailto:gasification-bounces at listserv.repp.org] On Behalf Of Peter Singfield
Sent: 19 March 2007 21:58
To: gasification at listserv.repp.org
Subject: Re: [Gasification] Producer Gas Driven Engine w/ Liquid Fuel Assist


At 02:06 PM 3/19/2007 -0600, Ed Woolsey wrote:
>Raw sugar ..One ton will equal about 135.4 gallons of ethanol. USDA 
>Pub. 2006 Ed
>Iowa
>About 14.7 pounds per gallon....

OK -- that sounds about right -- there are losses involved in real time
production.

A lot depends on exactly what kind of sugar -- sucrose -- glucose -- and
mixtures and variations -- etc.

sugar beet sugar might indeed require 30 lbs

Brazil sugar cane might well indeed be runing higher than 10% sugar yileds
-- as does our Berlize variety.

Peter / Belize

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