How can hydrous ethanol reduce fuel and vehicle costs?
Eliminating ethanol drying could provide most biorefineries with a reduction in production costs, which should be equivalent to a lower rack price for ethanol. The 4% increase in volume of hydrous ethanol produced would substantially increase net profits for biorefineries. In addition, the reduction of energy consumption at the biorefinery would make ethanol production more sustainable—by 10-30% depending on the drying technology utilized by the biorefinery.
