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Aventine Fun Fact
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A typical bushel of corn weighs 56 pounds and contains about 72,800 kernels. Most of the weight is starch, oil, protein and fiber, with some natural moisture.


Using the Wet Mill process, from one bushel of corn, Aventine produces:

4 pounds Corn Germ/bu
11 pounds Corn Gluten Feed/bu
2.5 pounds Corn Gluten Meal/bu
2.5 pounds CCDS/bu
16.5 pounds carbon dioxide
16.5 pounds (2.5 gallons) Ethanol/bu


Using the Dry Mill process, from one bushel of corn, Aventine produces:

18 pounds Distillers Dried Grain/bu
18.4 pounds (2.8 gallons) Ethanol/bu


An ear of corn averages 800 kernels in 16 rows. A pound of corn consists of about 1,300 kernels. 100 bushels of corn produces about 7,280,000 kernels.


Corn is produced on every continent of the world, except Antarctica.


Ethanol-blended fuels represent 30 percent of fuel sales in the U.S.


One acre of corn produces enough ethanol to equal 10 barrels of imported oil.


23.8 gallons of ethanol displace one barrel of imported oil.


In 2004 11 percent of the U.S. corn crop was used to produce 3.4 billion gallons of ethanol.


64 percent of U.S. oil consumption was imported in 2004.


Chrysler, Ford and General Motors recommend the use of ethanol in gasoline, while every motor manufacturer in the world approves ethanol blends and provides warranty coverage for properly blended ethanol fuel.


Ethanol is the only motor fuel additive that will not contribute to the "greenhouse effect." Instead, ethanol, made from corn, helps reverse the global warming that currently threatens our environment.


Ethanol is more than just an automotive fuel additive. Ethanol blends have been proven to perform in the small two-cycle engines that power many of the tools used around our homes. A recent test of small two-cycle engines using ethanol blends found that after more than 1,300 hours of rigorous operation, not a single fuel-related problem was detected.


On October 14, 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the speed of sound in the X-1 using an ethanol/water mix and liquid oxygen.


In 1989, Professor Max Shauck set a world record and was awarded the Harmon Trophy for flying a single engine across the Atlantic using pure ethanol.


Three-time IHRA World Champion Alcohol Funny Car Driver, Mark Thomas, uses ethanol to fuel his 1999 Dodge Avenger.
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