Subject: Ethanol is big oxidizer market
Ethanol is becoming the
gasoline additive of choice. General Motors is touting the advantages of this
corn-based fuel. As part of its ethanol push, GM is providing 28 state
governments, including Arizona's, with Chevrolet Avalanche demonstration
vehicles that are equipped to run on a fuel blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15
percent gasoline.
Some members of Congress are looking to further boost the ethanol industry by
pushing for a Renewable Fuels Standard provision that would set a five billion
gallon a year goal for ethanol use by 2012.
The market is big worldwide. Brazilian state run oil company, Petróleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), plans to invest $330 million in logistics required to export 8 billion liters of ethanol annually from 2010.
The early ethanol plants were installed without air pollution control equipment. But concern about VOC emissions and odors has insured that existing plants will be retrofitted and new plants fitted with efficient regenerative or other types of thermal oxidizers. The combined new and retrofit market is for hundreds of oxidizers in the U.S. over the next few years and substantial numbers off shore.
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Bob McIlvaine
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