Alternative Fuel Potentials for Agricultural Equipment in the USA
As a farmer, have you ever wondered how you will be affected with the rising cost of fuel? Your production cost will definitely sky rocket as your agricultural equipment in the USA or any other parts of the world depend on fuel to run.
The good thing about is that a lot of experts are exploring alternative fuels which you can use to run your machines and somehow manage your cost.
Possible Alternative Fuels
The Agricultural sector plays a vital role in the energy economy of the country. This trend may be more understood by talking about these potential alternative fuels:
• Ethanol- This fuel has been in the discussion boards for quite some time. It can be produced using enzymes to cook simple sugar complexes and convert it to synthetic gas. It can also be made into cellulosic ethanol which will be a great benefit for the farming sector. Cellulosic ethanol uses waste materials that have no economic value like cornstalks and broken plants. In the near future, farmers will harvest crops and make use of these scraps to fuel their agricultural equipment in the USA.
• Green Gasoline- again cellulosic feedstocks or sugarcane can be used to stimulate a reaction producing high power fuel. Sugar growers may benefit a lot on this endeavour but the costs of the production process must be lowered down.
• Biobutanol- this is another alternative fuel derived from sugary feedstock like the sugarcane. Microbes are used to draw the long chain of hyrdrocarbons used in fuel production. Infrastructure wise, we can use our existing fuel pipes to facilitate distribution of biobutanol.
• Designer Hyrdocarbons- Proper genetic engineering may help micro organisms convert sugar into fuel. This kind of fuel can be used in most of the vehicles today including agricultural equipment in the USA.
• Algal Biodiesel- Like the name suggests, this fuel will be derived from algae using organisms to extract oil from algae. The process simply involves separating the oil from the algae in fuel production tanks
The development of these alternative fuels which primarily depends on crop based feed stocks will mean more income per acre for farmers. There will come a time where there will be a big and permanent demand for food crop waste materials which will be used to produce these fuels.
Production of these fuels will also pave the way for true self sustaining farms which will have the capacity to produce fuels for its own electricity, processing, and fuel for agricultural equipment in the USA. GP
Posted in Agricultural Equipment USA on September 18, 2008 - 7:41 am by admin |
