Intake of alcohol and the intoxication that comes with, in some countries are not allowed. This is because there are different cultural and religious settings to alcohol exposure. For example, according to the Qur'an not allowed to drink alcohol probably because people in the state of intoxication may have difficulty controlling his behavior. In contrast to the Muslim countries have in Russia an alcohol culture that generally accepts the consumption of such. vodka. There are often drink large quantities of alcohol on special occasions, and Russia has one of the highest alcohol consumption per capita in the world. In the Western world, including Denmark, who made efforts to reduce the consumption of alcohol. For example, it is customary to consume beer, wine and spirits banned in workplaces. The reason for the desire to reduce the consumption of alcohol is in the Western world based on the health damage from excessive alcohol intake.
In the old days alcohol was used as an anesthetic. It was not optimal for surgery, because the concentration of alcohol in the blood, eliminating the pain completely, is fatal. Use of alcohol as anesthetic was therefore a balance between the degree of removal of pain and the risk of a fatal dose. Today alcohol as anesthetic replaced by other chemical compounds.
Alcohol is used as a disinfectant because alcohol has a denaturing effect. As mentioned, alcohol has a denaturing effect on the fatty membranes but also on proteins. Denaturation means modification of a substance, so it loses its natural properties. Fat Membranes are vital to include microorganisms and thus can eliminate the risk of infection, for example. wiping handle on the toilets of alcohol. In many contexts, alcohol is now being replaced by other substances as a disinfectant.
One would think that alcohol is becoming yt, since alcohol consumption for consumption and the technical applications are declining. It is indeed just the opposite. It has for many years showed that alcohol could be used as fuel, but it was too expensive compared to gasoline produced from oil. Burning of fossil fuels provides a greater and greater levels of CO 2 in the atmosphere, which seems to give a global warming due to greenhouse effect. Alcohol can be produced by fermentation processes with grain and other crops instead of glucose. There now a widespread desire fuels, which are what is called "CO 2 neutral. That is, the inclusion of CO 2 when plants are grown after the same CO 2 released when the plants are fermented and the alcohol is burned off. More importantly, the rising price of oil much as alcohol produced by fermentation may soon be able to compete with gasoline.
Plants contain cellulose and other polymers, as yeast is difficult to break. The Danish factory Novozymes develops and produces enzymes for the processes for converting plant material into alcohol. Many European countries and the United States focuses on the development of advanced bio-processes for the manufacture of alcohol as biofuel. The Danish government has not given a clear signal of commitment to biofuels, but Novozymes in collaboration with Dong Energy, Energy Agency's Energy Research and Technical University of Denmark had established a pilot plant to produce ethanol through advanced processes.
