96/06167 Drilling and evaluation of Ascension No. 1, a geothermal exploration well on Ascension Island, South Atlantic Ocean

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1996
• Weight: 187 KB
• Volume: 37
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-6701
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6701(97)83555-2

✦ Synopsis

Fuel ethanol from agricultural crops, 'bioethanol', is more expensive than petrol. The authors consider ways to reduce ethanol costs, by using mixed 'crops to extend the processing-season and by optimising plant capacity. They derived a simple model of general applicability by balancing crop transport costs (which increase wtth plant size) against the (decreasing) production costs.