Basics to Production and Manufacturing of Alcohol: Basics to the Elaboration of Ethanol, Gasohol, E10, E20, and E85 Fuels

Alcohol has a proud history. Gasoline is a refinery´s toxic waste; alcohol fuel is liquid sunshine. Henry Ford´s early cars were all flex-fuel. It wasn´t until magnate John D. Rockefeller funded prohibition that alcohol fuel companies where driven out of business. Alcohol production brings many new small-scale business opportunities. There is huge potential for profitable local, integrated, small-scale businesses that produce alcohol and related byproducts, whereas when gas was cheap, alcohol plants had to be huge to make a profit. In this book we will try to expose the chemistry behind the processing of vegetable sugars (waste or clean), the equipment, safety measures and set up for the area to process a batch of ethanol at home.