Table of Contents
SECTION ONE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 1.0 Overview
- 1.1 Ethanol Drivers -Real and Not Real (At Least Not Yet)
- 1.1.1 Driver Number One - Steeply Ascending Petroleum Prices
- 1.1.1.1 Untapped Petroleum Potential?
- 1.1.1.2 Competing Fuel Substitutes
- 1.1.2 Driver Number Two - Technological Innovation in Ethanol Production
- 1.1.3 Driver Number Three - Speculative Ardor within the Financial
Industry
- 1.2 Key Findings
SECTION TWO INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
- 2.0 Industry Overview
- 2.1 Structure of the Industry
- 2.1.1 Feedstock Providers
- 2.1.2 Ethanol Processors
- 2.1.3 Plant Engineering Firms
- 2.1.4 Ancillary Manufacturing Concerns
- 2.1.5 Distribution
SECTION THREE THE HISTORY OF ETHANOL IN FUEL APPLICATIONS
- 3.0 A Long History
- 3.1 From Civil War Lighting
- 3.1.1 Distribution Problems Then and Now
- 3.1.2 Ethanol Loses Ground
- 3.1.3 A Tale of Two Continents
- 3.1.4 Are Boom Times Near?
SECTION FOUR GLOBAL ETHANOL MARKET
- 4.0 Global Trends in the Ethanol Industry Today
- 4.1 Regional Analysis
- 4.1.1 The North American Ethanol Industry
- 4.1.2 Ethanol in Brazil
- 4.1.3 Fuel Ethanol Elsewhere in the Developing World
- 4.1.4 Fuel Ethanol in Europe
- 4.2 Ethanol Use in the Context of Motor Vehicle Design
SECTION FIVE ETHANOL FUEL PRODUCTS AND APPLICATIONS
- 5.0 World Fuel Ethanol Markets
- 5.1 Ethanol for Primary Fuel and Fuel Additive Uses by Region
- 5.1.1 Diesel and E-Diesel
- 5.1.2 E-85 and Other Mixes
- 5.1.3 Ethanol Fuel for other Forms of Transportation
- 5.1.3.1 Aircraft
- 5.1.3.2 Watercraft
- 5.1.3.3 Two Wheeled Transport
- 5.2 A Troubling Deficiency
SECTION SIX WHY ETHANOL
- 6.0 The Case for Ethanol Fuel and the Counterarguments
- 6.1 The Peak Oil Argument
- 6.1.1 Some Ways of Thinking about Peak Oil
- 6.2 The Green Argument
- 6.2.1 Economic Feasibility
- 6.3 Other Advantages as a Motor Fuel
- 6.3.1 The Counterarguments
- 6.3.1.1 Cost
- 6.3.1.2 Difficulties in Storage and Transport
- 6.3.1.3 Adverse Competitive Positioning within the Marketplace
- 6.4 Fuel Additives - Ethanol' s Primary Opportunity Today
SECTION SEVEN COMPETITIVE ALTERNATIVES
- 7.0 A Summary of the Landscape
- 7.1 Conventional Petroleum Based Fuels
- 7.2 Unconventional Petroleum and Oil Shale
- 7.2.1 Tar sands
- 7.2.2 Oil shale
- 7.3 Other Alcohols
- 7.3.1 Methanol
- 7.3.2 Butanol
- 7.3.3 Mixed Alcohols
- 7.3.3.1 Catalytic Production Processes for Mixed Alcohols
- 7.4 Synfuels
- 7.4.1 Synfuel Natural Gas
- 7.4.2 Synfuel from Coal
- 7.5 Fuel Gases
- 7.5.1 Fossil fuel gases used in native form
- 7.5.2 Derived fuel gases
- 7.5.3 Natural Gas
- 7.5.4 Liquid Petroleum Gas
- 7.5.5 Hydrogen
- 7.5.6 Syngas
- 7.5.7 DME
- 7.6 Other Fuels
- 7.6.1 Pyrolysis Oil
- 7.6.2 Biodiesel
- 7.6.3 Boutique Liquid Fuel
SECTION EIGHT FEEDSTOCKS
- 8.0 Definition
- 8.1 Ethanol Feedstocks
- 8.1.1 Starchy Grains
- 8.1.2 Corn
- 8.1.3 Other Starchy Grain Crops
- 8.1.4 Sugar Crops
- 8.1.4.1 Sugarcane
- 8.1.4.2 Sugar Beets
- 8.1.4.3 Sorghum
- 8.1.5 Fuel Crops
- 8.1.6 Other Plant Fuel Crops
- 8.1.7 Agricultural Waste
- 8.1.8 Forest and Wood Waste
- 8.1.9 Industrial Waste
- 8.1.10 Other Forms of Biomass
- 8.1.11 Fossil Fuel Feedstocks
SECTION NINE PRODUCTION PROCESSES
- 9.0 Production Processes
- 9.1 Fermentation Followed by Distilling
- 9.1.1 Single Fermentation and Distillation
- 9.1.2 Double Fermentation and Distillation
- 9.1.3 Cellulosic Production Methods
- 9.1.4 Acid Hydrolysis
- 9.1.5 Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis
- 9.1.6 Dilute Acid Hydrolysis
- 9.1.7 ACOS/Paszner process
- 9.1.8 Enzymatic Hydrolysis
- 9.1.9 Synthesis of Ethanol from Syngas
- 9.1.9.1 Gasifiers
- 9.1.10 Hydro-thermal Upgrading
- 9.1.11 Plasma Reactors
- 9.1.12 Anaerobic Digesters
SECTION TEN DISTRIBUTION, TRANSPORTATION, AND MARKETING
- 10.0 Moving the Fuel
- 10.1 E85 and Establishing an Ethanol Infrastructure
- 10.2 Existing Infrastructure
- 10.3 International Trade in Ethanol
- 10.4 Scenarios for Future Growth
- 10.4.1 Growth of the Fuel Additive Business
- 10.4.2 Replacement Fuels
SECTION ELEVEN SUMMARY
SECTION TWELVE PROFILES
- 12.0 Ethanol Industry Participants
- 12.1 Ethanol Producers
- 12.1.1 Chemical, Agronomic, and Food Processing Companies
- 12.1.1.1 Abengoa Bioenergy/Abengoa SA
- 12.1.1.2 The Andersons, Inc.
- 12.1.1.3 Archer Daniels Midland Company
- 12.1.1.4 Broin Companies/Poet LLC
- 12.1.1.5 Cargill Corporation
- 12.1.1.6 SunOpta Inc/Stake Technology
- 12.2 Specialized Ethanol Producers
- 12.2.1 Advanced Bioenergy, LLC
- 12.2.2 Alternative Energy Sources, Inc.
- 12.2.3 Aventine Renewable Energy
- 12.2.4 COSA S/A
- 12.2.5 GreenField Ethanol
- 12.2.6 Hawkeye Renewables, LLC
- 12.2.7 Pacific Ethanol
- 12.2.8 Panda Energy, International
- 12.2.9 VeraSun Renewable Energy
- 12.3 Processing Technology Companies
- 12.3.1 Companies Focused on Traditional Feedstocks.
- 12.4 Cellulosic Ethanol Companies
- 12.4.1 Blue Fire Ethanol, Inc. /Arkenol
- 12.4.2 Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation
- 12.4.3 British Petroleum and DuPont
- 12.4.4 Genahol, Inc.
- 12.4.5 Iogen
- 12.4.6 Mascoma Corporation
- 12.4.7 NewGen Technologies, Inc.
- 12.4.9 Pure Energy, Inc.
- 12.4.10 PureVision
- 12.4.11 Range Fuels
- 12.4.12 Xethanol Corporation
- 12.5 Process Companies Employing Ethanol Synthesis Technologies
- 12.6 Butanol and Mixed Alcohol Process Companies
- 12.7 Plant engineering companies
- 12.8 Enzyme Companies
CHARTS AND FIGURES
- Chart 1: Global Gasoline Production, 2006 to 2012
- Chart 2: Global Vehicle Production, 2005 to 2011
- Chart 3: Ethanol Fuel Production, Conservative, 2006 to 2012
- Chart 4: Ethanol Fuel Production, Aggressive, 2006 to 2012
- Chart 5: Global Oil Production, 2005 to 2010
- Chart 6: Global Oil Discoveries, 1930s to 1990s
- Chart 7: Global Heavy Oil Production, 2006 to 2012
- Chart 8: Global Oil Shale Production, 2010 to 2015
- Chart 9: World Production of Methanol, 2005 to 2010
- Chart 10: Global Market for Butanol Fuel, 2007 to 2012
- Chart 11: US Synfuel Production, 2010 to 2015
- Chart 12: Global Synfuel Production, 2010 to 2015
- Chart 13: Use of Hydrogen in Automotive Applications, 2005 to 2010
- Chart 14: Hydrogen Usage in Terrestrial Transportation, Best Case, 2011 to
2016
- Chart 15: Hydrogen Usage in Terrestrial Transportation, Worse Case, 2011
to 2016
- Chart 16: Use of Hydrogen in ICE Vehicles, 2007 to 2010
- Chart 17: Use of Hydrogen in ICE Vehicles, 2011 to 2016
- Chart 18: Projected Consumption of Pure Hydrogen within the Methanol
Industry, 2007-2010
- Chart 19: DME Fuel Production, 2007 to 2013
- Chart 20: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2006
- Chart 21: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2007
- Chart 22: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2008
- Chart 23: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2009
- Chart 24: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2010
- Chart 25: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2011
- Chart 26: Ethanol Feedstocks by Type, 2012
- Chart 27: Global Cane Sugar Production, 2007 to 2012
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