ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR SMALL-SCALE FUEL ALCOHOL PRODUCTION

Thomas L. Dobbs, Randy Hoffman and Ardelle Lundeen

Western Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1984, vol. 09, issue 01, 9

Abstract: Small-scale alcohol plants will have difficulty in supplying fuel that is competitive in cost with petroleum-based fuels. This is based upon economic findings form interdisciplinary research with a pilot fuel alcohol plant. Results of economic-engineering cost analyses and of fuel and feed byproduct returns analyses are shown. Fuel and feed transportation costs are also considered in determining the economic feasibility prospects for small-scale plants producing hydrous ethanol from grain.

Keywords: Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1984
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.32369

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