Large-scale alcohol production from corn, grain sorghum, and crop residues
The potential impacts that large-scale alcohol production from corn, grain sorghum, and crop residues may have on US agriculture in the year 2000 are investigated. A one-land-group interregional linear-programming model is used. The objective function is to minimize the cost of production in the agricultural sector, given specified crop demands and constrained resources. The impacts that levels of alcohol production, ranging from zero to 12 billion gallons, have at two projected levels of crop demands, two grain-to-alcohol conversion and two milling methods, wet and dry, rates are considered. The impacts that large-scale fuel alcohol production has on US agriculture are small. The major impacts that occur are the substitution of milling by-products, DDG, gluten feed, and gluten meal, for soybean meal in livestock feed rations. Production of 12 billion gallons of alcohol is estimated to be equivalent to an 18 percent increase in crop exports. Improving the grain-to-alcohol conversion rate from 2.6 to 3.0 gallons per bushels reduces the overall cost of agricultural production by $989 billion when 12 billion gallons of alcohol are produced.
- OSTI ID:
- 5317747
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
Similar Records
Advancing the Renewable Industry in Minnesota
Economics of producing fuel-grade alcohol from corn in western Ohio
Related Subjects
09 BIOMASS FUELS
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
AGRICULTURAL WASTES
ALCOHOL FUELS
AGRICULTURE
PRODUCTION
MAIZE
SORGHUM
ECONOMIC IMPACT
CEREALS
FUELS
GRAMINEAE
GRASS
INDUSTRY
ORGANIC WASTES
PLANTS
SYNTHETIC FUELS
WASTES
090200* - Alcohol Fuels- (-1989)
140504 - Solar Energy Conversion- Biomass Production & Conversion- (-1989)
299003 - Energy Planning & Policy- Unconventional Sources & Power Generation- Other- (-1989)
295000 - Energy Planning & Policy- Hydrogen & Synthetic Fuels