Dana,
Yeah I believe Purdue have done some work on this. Contact ????
(name escapes me at present, but chap who has done the work on corn grits as
water removal from ethanol. Extremely knowledgeable and helpful . If he cant
help you direct will be able to tell you who can). Look on Keiths site. Also
believe TVA have done some work.
Look at http://members.tripod.com/alien_firelily/chemwebpage/production.htm
You might be best to look at ethanol production. Believe cobs can be broken
down by enzymes to mostly hemicellulose and then using g.e. yeast fermented
.
B.r., David
----- Original Message -----
From: Dana Linscott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [biofuel] methanol production/corncobs
> One of our project members has requested that I
> investigate the possability of methanol production
> using corn cobs as a feedstock.
>
> Consisting of mainly cellulose I imagine that a
> destructive distillation might be the route to go.
>
> Does anyone have a lead for more information on
> destructive distillation or related material?
>
> I am more inclined to use pulverized corncobs as
> Biodiesel production power myself but a small scale
> methanol production unit would definately lower our
> projected costs of Biodiesel production.
>
> Dana Linscott
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