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How ethenol is obtained from corn?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/20/2019

As Corn grows it converts the suns energy, carbon dioxide and water into sugars, cellulose and oxygen. The Corn is harvested and a MASH/ slurry of sorts is made and yeasts are added to ferment the sugars into alcohol. The resulting fermented mixture consists of water, ethanol and some methanol (from decomposition of some cellulose). This mixture is between 10 and 15% purity of ethanol. Large scale distillation is then employed to increase the purity of the ethanol to near 100%

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