related Squeezing Every Drop of Ethanol From Corn < http://www.alternate-energy.net/N/news.php?detail=n1141936056.news > > -------Original Message------- > From: Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Oil AND Ethanol out of Corn > Sent: 14 Apr '06 12:13 > > 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. > > > >Get your daily alternative energy news > > > >Alternate Energy Resource Network > > 1000+ news sources-resources > > updated daily > > > >http://www.alternate-energy.net > > > > > > > > > > > > > >Next Generation Grid > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/next_generation_grid/ > > > > > >Tomorrow-energy > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tomorrow-energy/ > > > > > >Alternative Energy Politics > >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Alternative_Energy_Politics/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
