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What is the connection between sugar mills and ethanol?

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Ethanol is often co-produced by sugar mills that use cane juice or molasses to produce ethanol. Cane juice is fed directly into fermentation vessels to produce ethanol shortly after crushing (it is perishable) while molasses is first diluted before being fermented. read more

Ethanol burns easily because it vaporizes quickly, the ethanol vapors mix with the air and combust. Since sugar doesn't vaporize under normal conditions, it's much harder to make it burn. As a solid, there's very little interface between the sugar molecules and the surrounding air. read more

While dry milling is less capital intensive, it also yields less ethanol per bushel of corn than wet milling (Rajagopalan, et al., 2005). Wet milling involves steeping the corn for up to 48 hours to assist in separating the parts of the corn kernel. read more

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