国外生物乙醇开发最新进展(2)

Fagen  said  that  interest  is  starting  to  grow  coast-to-coast.  His  company  is  working  on  the  development  of  an  ethanol  plant  in  Texas,  and  there  is  also  interest  in  a  California  plant.  He  pointed  out  that  ethanol  is  already  being  produced  at  a  plant  his  company  built  in  Kentucky,  where  corn  for  fuel  is  being  raised  where  tobacco  once  grew.

Looking  ahead,  he  said  he  believes  that  ethanol  can  provide  more  than  10  percent  of  America’s  fuel  needs.  He  believes  that  corn  will  continue  to  be  the  ingredient  of  choice  until  demand  by  the  ethanol  industry  raises  its  price  beyond  what  its  market  as  food  supports.

He  doesn’t  believe  that  we  will  reach  that  point  as  quickly  as  some  predict.  Continued  improvements  in  corn  genetics-  resulting  in  higher  yields  and  corn  better  suited  for  conversion  to  ethanol-keeps  boosting  the  supply  of  corn,  he  explained.

But  inevitably,  Fagen  said  that  he  anticipates  that  producers  will  also  turn  to  other  sources  such  as  barley,  wheat,  and  perhaps  switch  grass  to  make  ethanol  as  well.

If  we  develop  biomass  as  a  fuel  source  for  ethanol,  Fagen  said  the  fuel  could  someday  become  our  primary  source  of  energy  for  transportation  and  end  our  reliance  on  foreign  oil.

Veridium的乙醇生产效率提高合同

Veridium  Corporation  (OTC  Bulletin  Board:  VRDM)  today  announced  its  receipt  of  an  order  from  a  Wisconsin  based  ethanol  producer  for  the  second  stage  of  Veridium's  patent-pending  Corn  Oil  Extraction  Systems(TM).

Veridium's  proprietary  new  Corn  Oil  Extraction  Systems(TM)  extract  high  grade  corn  oil  from  an  ethanol  by-product  called  distillers  dried  grain  ("DDG").

One  Kernel,  Two  Fuels

Currently,  the  majority  of  ethanol  production  is  based  on  a  dry  milling  technique  that  utilizes  more  than  1  billion  bushels  of  corn  to  produce  3  billion  gallons  per  year  of  ethanol.  The  dry  mill  process  converts  the  starch  from  the  kernel  of  corn  into  sugar  and  then  the  sugar  into  ethanol.  The  balance  of  the  corn  (non-starch  components)  then  goes  through  a  dewatering  and  dehydration  process  where  the  byproduct  is  sold  as  a  commercial  feed  ingredient  called  DDG.  DDG  contains  the  majority  of  the  corn  oil  that  was  present  in  the  kernel.  Today,  the  1  billion  bushels  of  corn  currently  used  in  the  dry  mill  ethanol  process  contain  roughly  300  million  gallons  of  corn  oil  that  is  currently  sold  for  about  $0.03  per  pound  as  commercial  feed.  The  new  Veridium  technology  presents  another  option  -  cost  effective  conversion  of  the  oil  in  the  ethanol  by-product  into  biodiesel.   (责任编辑：泉水)

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