What ingredients are needed to create ethanol?
All ethanol is derived from sugar. Even corn ethanol (or celluosic ethanol) must first be broken down into starch, which is then converted to sugar and fermented into alcohol. E-Fuel has focused on using raw distressed sugar as a primary feedstock. Such sugar is not suitable for human consumption and is in a form which may immediately be fermented into alcohol, thus bypassing the energy-inefficent process of converting cellulosic materials into sugar.
Sugar is the main ingredient, mixed with a special ethanol fuel yeast mixture (ethanol fuel-EM). Pre-mixed sugar and ethanol fuel-EM may be purchased from authorized E-Fuel distributors and dealers. Alternatively, consumers may purchase the ethanol fuel-EM at www.ethanol fuel.com and mix with sugar which meets the quality standards for use in the MyDaisyDuke . When mixed with water in the MyDaisyDuke a process called fermentation begins, the end result of which is ethanol. Whereas all feedstocks (including cane, beet or converted starch such as corn or cellulosic) can be processed using ethanol fuel-EM in the MyDaisyDuke fermentation tank, the more pure the sugar feedstock the more ethanol can be produced. Standard dry crystal table sugar works best.
