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Wheat or corn kernels are ground in a hammermill to expose the starch. The ground grain is mixed with water, cooked briefly and enzymes are added to convert the starch to sugar using a chemical reaction called hydrolysis. Yeast is added to ferment the sugars to ethanol. The ethanol is separated from the mixture by distillation and the water is removed from the mixture using dehydration.
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shared by fiorinijam98 on 13 Mar 12 - No Cached

Biofuels in the solid form has been in use ever since man discovered fire.
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Wood was the first form of biofuel that was used even by the ancient people for cooking and heating
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This form of fuel was discovered even before the discovery of the fossil fuels, but with the exploration of the fossil fuel like gas, coal, and oil the production and use of biofuel suffered a severe impact.
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shared by fiorinijam98 on 13 Mar 12 - No Cached

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Biofuels have been around as long as cars have. At the start of the 20th century, Henry Ford planned to fuel his Model Ts with ethanol, and early diesel engines were shown to run on peanut oil.
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