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    been experimenting with different types of fuels and adding to gasoline to make it more efficient. This is when ethanol made its debut into the fuel industry‚ as an additive to gasoline. Ethanol is put into gas as a combatant against water‚ which can find its way into fuel tanks of vehicles. It reduces the effect that this water has on the health of the vehicle‚ and as a result increases gas mileage‚ and also increases the amount of complete combustion. Ethanol consumption has severe drawbacks pertaining

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    Transportation

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    The transportation is a basis of utilities that governments should provide to their citizens. If they have to choose to spend money on improving between roads and highways and public transportation. The public transportation is a service for the most people in the country. Therefore‚ if governments have to spend money‚ they should expend for the best advantage. It means that medium and low state people go by buses‚ trains or subways more than high state people go by cars. If governments improve

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    fruity ethanol producers

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    Ateneo de Iloilo Santa Maria Catholic School Pison Ave.‚ San Rafael‚ Mandurriao‚ Iloilo City “Fruity Ethanol Producers” An Investigative Project In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements in Physics Submitted to: Mrs. Menchie Libo-on Pagay Submitted by: Erika Jill Loraňa Baldevieso Zachary Khan Amargo Golez Josef Alan Del Socorro Morales March 2014 Chapter 1 Introduction Background of the Study Do you often eat fruits like bananas‚ apples and others? Do

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    Transportation and environmental issues are opposite in nature since transportation deliver socio-economic benefits are great‚ but at the same time impactingenvironmental transportation system. On one side‚ supporting transport activities growing demand for passenger and cargo movement‚ while on the other‚ transportation activities associated with increasing levels of external environment. This has reached the point where transport is the dominant source of the pollution emission and multiple effects

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    Bio-ethanol is manufactured from fermenting starch‚ wheat and sugar cane. Ethanol is also made from the hydration of ethylene from petroleum‚ though the majority of ethanol is produced by fermentation. It is considered an alternative fuel source as it is regarded to be renewable and more beneficial to the environment. As a car fuel ethanol is blended with petrol in different concentrations. In cars‚ carbon monoxide is produced from the incomplete combustion of petroleum. By adding ethanol which

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    ethanol production

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    org/AJB ISSN 1684–5315 © 2008 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Ethanol production potential of local yeast strains isolated from ripe banana peels A. A. Brooks Department of Microbiology‚ University of Calabar‚ P.M.B. 1115‚ Calabar‚ Nigeria. E-mail: brooks.akan@yahoo.com. Tel: 08037956762. Accepted 16 May‚ 2008 The ability of different yeast strains isolated from ripe banana peels to produce ethanol was investigated. Of the 8 isolates screened for their fermentation ability

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    Ethanol Production

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    Ethanol Production Ethanol is the type of alcohol found in alcoholic drinks such as wine and beer. Its chemical formula is: C2H5OH. Glucose from plant material is converted into ethanol and carbon dioxide by fermentation. The enzymes found in yeast (single-celled fungi) are the natural catalysts that can make this process happen. Here is the word equation: Sugar → Ethanol + Carbon Dioxide

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    Production of Ethanol

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    Introduction Ethanol most commonly which is produced through the fermentation of glucose by yeast cells. Fermentation is an energy-yielding process that cells carry out in the absence of oxygen. Although fermentation does not provide much usable energy for the cell‚ it is sufficient for yeast cells. Yeast cells produce ethanol and CO 2 as byproducts‚ and the ethanol produced valuable energy source. There is much interest in ethanol as an energy alternative which are nonrenewable and contribute significantly

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    Ethanol: Good or Bad? In the pursuit of a cleaner renewable resource to fossil fuels‚ many scientist have found alternatives. Examples include solar‚ wind‚ biogas‚ geothermal‚ biomass energy and cellulosic ethanol. In the last twenty years‚ efforts have been made to reduce our dependency on foreign oil and ethanol has been an option. Ethanol is nothing new; in fact‚ it was first used in a motor built by Samuel Morey in 1826 (Ethanol History). Since the 1980s‚ the government started having oil companies

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    Transportation

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    Sonia Pandya Introduction to PPPH Professor Orin Puniello Final Paper May 5‚ 2014 Transportation Policy and the Transportation Funding Issue The roads‚ railroads‚ bridges‚ and public transportation systems are all integral parts of the United States; without them there would be numerous predicaments in terms of mobility and the ability to facilitate commerce and shipping. Transportation policy pertains to the development of constructs that are set to achieve certain objectives in

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