Hi Bruno
We've been sneering at them for years about this. A couple of years
ago I was told some people in US universities were beginning to
wonder if maybe there might be a possibility of using the corn oil to
make biodiesel instead of just wasting it. I suppose these things
take time.
Maize is a pretty lousy biofuels crop anyway, ethanol plus biodiesel
or not. I don't think the big corn ethanol producers in the US are
ever going to get a sustainable act together, they're just the wrong
shape.
Corn Oil Extraction Systems, Reducing our dependence on foreign
oil... LOL! I suppose it makes more sense than burning the corn as
heating fuel but I'm not sure how much more. Maybe it just makes less
nonsense.
Best
Keith
Is this the way to better economics in BD and ethanol production?
From the same corn, they extract first the oil ( for BD production )
and afterwards make ethanol from the starch in it.
But they don't tell what the rest product has for value left as cattle feed;
after this double extraction.
Comments?
grts
Bruno M.
FYI:
Corn Oil Extraction Yields New Benefits for Ethanol Producers
Several ethanol producers have recently placed orders with Veridium
Corporation for the use of a technology that extracts corn oil from
distiller's dried grain, an ethanol by-product. The ethanol plants sell the
extracted corn oil back to Veridium for additional revenue. Veridium, in
turn, sells the corn oil to Mean Green Biofuels, Inc., which is currently
selling the corn oil on the open market, but eventually plans to convert
the corn oil into biodiesel. Veridium has received five orders for its Corn
Oil Extraction Systems, which it installs at no cost in exchange for buying
back the corn oil at below-market costs. The company has installed a system
at an ethanol plant in North Dakota, and plans to install systems at
ethanol plants in Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin later this year.
Veridium estimates that the five Corn Oil Extraction Systems now under
order could produce as much as 9.7 million gallons of corn oil per year,
which the company will sell for more than $1 per gallon. According to the
company, the distiller's dried grain produced by today's ethanol industry
contains roughly 300 million gallons of corn oil, 75 percent of which can
be removed by the extraction process. Once extracted, the corn oil can be
converted gallon for gallon into biodiesel. The company says the corn oil
extraction process also increases ethanol plant efficiencies, since it
reduces the energy required for drying the distiller's grain, which is sold
as cattle feed.
See the www.veridium.com/news.php Veridium press releases and the
www.meangreenbiofuels.com/technologies.php?mode=1 description of
the technology on the Mean Green BioFuels Web site.
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