>Would someone help me out on this. This says that a bushel of corn will > yield 1.5 pounds of corn oil on the top part and .5 pounds a little >farther down. At 56 pounds a bushel, that's 2.6 percent oil for the >higher number and .89 percent oil for the lower number. At the very >bottom it says that soybeans were not included because they contain less >than 20 percent oil and that is not practical to extract. > >Am I doing something wrong here? > >George
You're mixing up three different sources, Ethanol Science & Technology, Purdue, and VITA. The VITA paper that excludes soy doesn't say anything about corn. Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Osaka, Japan http://journeytoforever.org/ > > "Each bushel of corn [56 pounds] can produce up to 2.5 gallons of > > ethanol fuel" > > "1.5 lbs. of corn oil" > > Module 2 - Ethanol Science & Technology c1998 > > WHAT'S IN A BUSHEL OF CORN? > > http://www.nwicc.cc.ia.us/module2.htm > > > > Corn oil > > "About a half pound of oil is obtained from a bushel of corn." > > http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/Crops/Corn_oil.html > > > > > > > > > (*) Soybeans are not included in the list because their oil content of > > only 20 percent makes it impractical > > to extract oil from them by mechanical pressing. Soybean oil is > > recovered by solvent extraction. > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE credit report with a FREE CreditCheck Monitoring Service trial http://us.click.yahoo.com/ACHqaB/bQ8CAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
