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FAPRI Releases Study Predicting Billions in Lost Biofuels Sales & Demand Due to SREs
A recent report by the University of Missouri’s Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI) released a study late last week that examined the impacts of small refinery exemptions (SREs) on domestic...
A Life-Cycle Analysis of the Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Corn-Based Ethanol
This report has analyzed the current GHG profile of U.S. corn ethanol and two projected emissions profiles for 2022. The starting point is the GHG life-cycle analysis (LCA) done by the U.S....
Potential Increased Ethanol Sales through E85 for the 2019 RFS
This analysis was conducted to examine the feasibility of increasing ethanol consumption through E85 by an additional 0.38 bg by 2019, an annual rate that if continued through 2022 will increase ethanol...
The RFS Reset and Corn Ethanol Production
This report examines how much additional corn and ethanol could be produced if the historic trends for corn production and ethanol processing continue through 2022. The analysis allows the food and other...
Spatial and temporal dimensions of agricultural land use changes
In central regions of the U. S. Corn Belt, agricultural production since 2001 has changed in response to federal policies implemented to encourage production of biofuels. Such changes have influenced agricultural practices,...
Infrastructure Changes and Cost to Increase Consumption of E85 and E15 in 2017
Congress legislated both the 2005 Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and the updated 2007 Standard (RFS2) as a mechanism to mandate the phasing in of renewable biofuels into U.S. transportation fuels. On an...
An Analysis of the Proposed 2017 Renewable Volume Obligations
In May 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) for calendar year 2017 under the Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS) program. EPA set the total renewable fuel target under...
E15 and Infrastructure
This paper addresses the compatibility of E15 (15% denatured ethanol, 85% gasoline blendstock) with equipment at refueling stations. Over the last decade, a tremendous amount of work by refueling equipment manufacturers, industry...
Carbon Intensity of Marginal Petroleum and Corn Ethanol Fuels
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from petroleum and alternative fuels have been the subject of research for several decades. Petroleum gasoline and corn ethanol are the most widely used automotive fuels and arguably...
Analysis of Underground Storage Tank System Materials with E15 Fuel
It is not the purpose of this report to define the acceptable limits of material performance or to rate individual materials. Rather, the purpose of this study was to assess critical property...
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