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ETHANOL FUEL MARKETS 2007: Alternative Fuel Solutions

Published by Visant Strategies, Inc. Contact us : +1-860-674-8796
Published 2007/05 Content info 150 PAGES
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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
      • 2.1.5.1 E85 vs. MBTE

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
      • 6.2.1.1 Net Energy Gain
  • 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
      • 8.1.5.1 Algae
    • 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

  • 11.0 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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