New Technologies - CleanTech Portfolio

We finally have some word on our new technologies. Yes the devil is in the details. Numerous ones below however, if proven to be cost effective, have the potential to be real game changers.

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We have developed an entire portfolio of innovative biological, chemical and physical technologies with a view towards shifting the U.S. corn ethanol complex into increased financial and environmental sustainability. We intend to leverage our existing extraction platform to drive the convergence of cellulosic and corn ethanol. Our portfolio of Cellulosic Corn™ technologies include a number of (a) feedstock conditioning, (b) oil production, extraction and refining, and (c) energy and carbon mitigation technologies, all designed to facilitate the following key goals:
 Increase the net energy balance of biofuel derived from corn;
 Increase profitability of corn ethanol;
 Decrease amount of petroleum burned to make corn derived biofuel;
 Increase nutritional content of corn ethanol co-products;
 Convert the carbon dioxide emitted from corn ethanol production into liquid fuels and other products;
 Diversify the biomass mix accepted and produced by corn ethanol facilities;
 Decrease the commodity and financial risk profile of corn ethanol;
 Standardize corn-friendly cellulosic technology by building on the existing corn ethanol complex; and,
 Enhance the competitive positioning of corn ethanol in the domestic and global markets.

GreenShift’s patented and patent-pending feedstock conditioning technologies are designed to increase the availability of fermentable sugars in whole corn and enable corn ethanol producers to diversify their feedstock mix by accepting and processing corn cobs, stover and cellulosic biomass into additional biofuels. Key goals include increasing ethanol and extracted corn oil yields, decreasing raw material and utility costs, and improving the value of distillers grain.

Achievement of these goals can be expected to enhance the profitability of first generation corn ethanol producers while decreasing their sensitivity to commodity and financial risk. These technologies have been demonstrated at the bench and pilot scale.

Our oil production, extraction and refining technologies include our existing commercialized corn oil extraction and refining technologies but also include our new patent-pending Cellulosic Oil™ process, which has demonstrated (at bench scales) the ability to increase oil extraction yields to more than 10 gallons for every 100 gallons of corn ethanol produced – an increase of more than 50% over our current proven yield of 6.5 gallons for every 100 gallons of ethanol produced. Cellulosic Oil™ technology has the potential to increase oil yields even higher while favorably impacting the nutritional qualities of distillers grain by conditioning and converting cellulosic and other biomass into additional oil and feed products.

We achieve this with a synergistic combination of feedstock conditioning and low energy bioreactor technologies that are also designed to reduce the energy needs of the host ethanol producer while using the full throughput capacity of our existing extraction facilities.

GreenShift’s patent-pending biodiesel refining technologies intensify the chemical reactions under which biodiesel refining occurs. We are consequently able to complete the biodiesel refining process in minutes instead of hours under true continuous flow conditions – at much smaller scales, and at reduced capital and operating costs as compared to traditional processes.

Our biodiesel refining technologies are designed to integrate with our extraction technologies at our client ethanol facilities for direct onsite refining of corn oil and Cellulosic Oil™ into biodiesel. {SkunK note: When you get production of corn oil to the 10mmgy point in a typical 100mmgy ethanol plant, you eliminate the transportation of corn oil. Each plant can produce 10mmgy of corn based biodiesel in its own biodiesel plant, from its own feedstock, and sell into the local biodiesel market}

Our patented and patent-pending energy and carbon mitigation technologies rely on the balanced and synergistic application of several biological, chemical and physical technologies to cost-effectively decarbonize ethanol production by converting carbon dioxide emissions into liquid fuels and other value-added products. These technologies have also been demonstrated at bench scales.

We have applied for grant financing to support the construction of pilot facilities based on each of our Cellulosic Corn™ technologies.

We are also in discussions with targeted early-adopters involving the testing and commercial
demonstration of each technology.

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Good Luck,
SkunK