Al-Corn Clean Fuels Update

Update on 'da Update - SkunK says:  "Government bureaucracy is shown to be root of problem."

Link to more detailed report

"Doyal said the plant had applied for a permit from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to get clearance to replace the 15- to 16-year-old carbon steel tank with a stainless steel tank, but that permit had not been granted until last Thursday — about eight months after Al-Corn had applied for the permit."

"Doyal said while he would have expected such a permit to be approved in one day in Iowa, . ."
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Ethanol plant holding tank collapses

CLAREMONT — A 270,000 gallon corn mash holding tank, which was scheduled to be replaced at the Al-Corn Clean Fuels in Claremont, collapsed inside a building about 1:30 a.m. New Years Day, draining nearly all the mash from that tank and from another one connected to it.

About 420,000 gallons in all spilled, and about 100,000 gallons got out of the building but stayed on Al-Corn land, said Randy Doyle, Al-Corn CEO. Most of the mash in the building was recovered and is being turned into ethanol, he said.

Mash is part of the process used to turn corn into ethanol. “It kind of looks like Malt-O-Meal, maybe a little bit more liquidy,” he said.

No one was hurt, though those inside were scared, he said.

SEE HERE

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Looks like Al-Corn had an accident, good to see no one was hurt.  Al-Corn Clean Fuels is an accused infringer of the GreenShift COES patents.  In their recent newsletter we see they sold 1,976,260# of corn oil over 4 months.  That is about 260,000 gallons and about @ a 780,000 gallon a year rate.   Quite a lower rate than this - 4 gallons of corn oil per 100 gallons of ethanol!
SkunK

PS
"liquidy" may not be a word in established dictionaries- but it should be - just 'cause I like it. . . lol