Researchers say community
*still can produce $1,21 gasohol
LANCASTER A well - proper 3nd the Gthsnol 3nci wet
built, well-run small com- sensitivity of their estimates would require only about
munity corn-alcohol to changes in prices of com 40,000 Btu - about 40 per
distillation plant can and other ethanol sources as cent of the total energy
produce 200-proof ethanol for well as distillery byproducts, needed for the five stens for
gasohol for about $1.21 a The estimates show the higher proof ethanol and dry
gallon when credits are farm opertor paying less for stillage.”
allowed for by-products. his ethanol ‘feedstock’ —in The report, by Develop-
That’s almost as cheap as this case, com than the ment Planning and
an efficient on-farm plant larger distiller would pay. A Research Associates, Inc of
can distill 190-proof. But 56-pound bushel of Manhattan, Kans., includes
many farmers won’t need com yields about 2.5 gallons ap eight-page “checklist of
the ‘dry’ or anhydrous 200- of ethanol in a highly ef- design and performance
proof ethanol. ficient plant. The report says criteria for small still
These are among the farmer can estimate his alcohol plant loan ap
gleanings from a report to com feedstock cost at $1 per plications.” Prospective
the U.S. Department of gallon, while the community ethanol producers might use
Agriculture by a Kansas distiller would calculate it at it m seeking funds from
research group. The group $l.lO for each gallon of private lenders of USDA’s
also found that an efficient ethanol. Farmers Home Ad
and large on-farm still Milton L. David, director ministration,
should be able to produce of the group that produced FmHA has about $lO
190-proof com ethanol for the report, said the study million this fiscal year for
about $1.13 a gallon net of showed, “If the boiler in a direct farm-ethanol loans to
•the credits mentioned plant has an efficiency of 80 farmers who can’t obtain
compared to $1.34 for a small percent, it uses about 100,000 credit elsewhere. FmHA is
on-farm still and $1.63 a Btu of energy to produce dry authorized to guarantee as
gallon if the fuel is distilled stillage the animal-feed much as $lOO million in
with a farmer’s “pot still” byproduct and one gallon business-and-industry loans
a commercial model of the of anhydrous or 200-proof to distillers by September 30. of p.
moonshiner’s still. ethanol that has somewhat The multi-section report, buildin fe
Researchers qualify their less energy value 76,152 containing about 220 pages, centers
estimates carefully, Btu. is entitled “Small-Scale Fuel development 1.
stressing efficiency and But to produce 190-proof Alcohol Production” stock
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Of the report, David said,
“It covers suitability of
ethanol in spark ignition and
diesel engines, fuel use on
and off the farm, prmciples
of ethanol production, use
and cost of feedstock, by
production utilization,
production plant charac
teristics and costs to produce
ethanol. Potential uses of
fuel ethanol include
Land sales for development
can bring farm problems
NEWARK, Del. - Farm
owners considering the sale
of part of their land, for
building lots, shopping
centers or similar
development may wish to
Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 17,1980—A13
powering farm and com
mercial stationary engines,
gram dryers and boilers, but
its most practical near-term
use will be as fuel for mobile
engines.
“Spark ignition engines
would be most easily con
verted to ethanon use
because they can bum
gasoline or 200-proof ethanol
mixed with gasoline
gasohol,” David said.
“Next easiest would be
engines modified to bum
lower-proof ethanol in lieu of
gasoline. Still another ap
proach would be engines that
could bum either lower
proof ethanol or gasoline by
having dual fuel systems.
“The value of ethanol in a
spark-ignition engine is
increased if the engine’s
compression ratio is in
creased from 8 to 1 to about
think about future uses of the
land theyretam.
Normal farm operations
may be considered
nuisances by your new
neighbors, warns University
of Delaware extension
pesticide specialist John
McDaniel. Dust' resulting
from tillage procedures,
noisy farm equipment, and
odors from poultry and
hvestock operations, have
all caused complaints in the
past.
Recently the U.S. En
vironmental Protection
Agency has begun to monitor
pesticide drift in parts of
Arizona. The area mvolved
was predonmmately far
mland until recent tunes.
Then residential con
struction boomed. With: it
came shopping centers,
schools, roads, parks and all
other improvements needed
to give new arrivals the
services they needed.
Cotton is tiie principal crop
grown on the farms in the
area. It is a standard
practice to apply a defoliant
chemical to remove the
leaves before machine
harvesting the cotton. Some
of the defoliants used are
irritating and have a
disagreeable odor. The
newcomers complained.
National televeision came on
the scene, followed by a
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“As for diesel engines,
most feasible fuel for the
near term is 100- or higher -
proof ethanol injected into
the engme air intake just
upstream from the tur
bocharger. This idea is
getting most attention now
because of the availability of
a conversion kit sold by
M&W Gear Company,
Gibson City, III.”
Ethanol can be produced
from many farm crops and
wastes. The report suggests
how farmers and others may
assess suitability of various
feedstocks, classified into
three groups; those mainly
consisting of starches
currently most often con
sidered sugars or
cellulose.
congressional committee,
and the situation became
very controversial.
As a result, the EPA has
published what they call an
advisory opinion covering
application of defoliants to
cotton m Arizona. This
Advisory Opinion spells out
methods for minimizing drift
of pesticides. After the
monitoring and exposure
studies are complete, more
stringent regulation may be
announced. Application by
ground equipment is also
clearly covered m the ad
visory opinion.
Sometime in the future the
application of pesticides
near residences, schools,
highways, shoppmg centers,
and other sensitive areas
could well be restricted.
Such restriction would have
a serious effect on uses
which could be made of
fields lying next to such
sensitive areas, notes Mc-
Daniel. ~
This situation is a
possibility farmers need to
keep in mind as they con
sider selling off part of their
land for strip development.
Judgmg by events already
experienced m the long run
such development could
seriously affect future
farming operations on their
remaining land.