No corn oil here - but nice article featuring a GreenShift customer - United Ethanol in Milton, WI. This field involves some of GreenShift's non-COES Technology - although I am unaware of any GreenShift commercial deployment.
"A handful ethanol plants, for example, are working to reduce fossil fuel use through innovation. Whether producing power from a biomass boiler, gasifier or anaerobic digester, or installing heat exchangers to utilize waste heat, it’s all about reducing the amount of natural gas used per gallon of ethanol produced."
SEE ALL HERE
SkunK
Saturday, April 30, 2011
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Sure there's corn oil.
"United Ethanol also recently added corn-oil extraction at the plant, another technology that helps reduce energy use."
Great article SkunK!
For those that may not know, Greenshift owns part of Zeropoint Cleantech. They're working on several exciting projects including one in Germany that's just waiting on regulatory approval.
They deal with converting biomass(woodchips, husks, shells) and such and they turn it into electricity and liquid fuels. The most exciting thing to me is converting the ethanol byproduct DDG into more ethanol.
http://www.zeropointcleantech.com/company
April 26 Document from the treasurer in California.
Calgren Renewable Fuels is getting $2,000,000 in financial assistance for "operational improvements" at their plant in California. Could this be the funding to install the corn oil upgrade and method II?
WHEREAS, Calgren Renewable Fuels, LLC (“Participant”) applied to the Energy Commission for financial assistance for its ethanol production facility (”Project”) in the form of participation in the CEPIP pursuant to the Energy Commission’s Program Opportunity Notice 09-607, and was approved for participation in the CEPIP on January 12, 2011; and
WHEREAS, consistent with the interagency agreement, the Energy Commission has notified the Authority of the Participant’s approval and requested that the Authority enter into a Financial Assistance Agreement (“Agreement”) not to exceed $2,000,000 with Calgren Renewable Fuels, LLC;
THE PARTICIPATING PARTY. Calgren Renewable Fuels, LLC is a California limited liability company that has been producing ethanol since August 2009. The Participant represents that its plant is powered by an ultra-low nitrous oxide gas turbine generator capable of producing 5,800 Kilowatts of electricity.
The major owners (10.0% or greater) of Calgren are:
USA Renewable Fuels, LLC
Nella Oil Company, LLC
BoMo, LLC
"STAFF RECOMMENDATION. Staff recommends approval of a Financial Assistance Agreement in an amount not to exceed $2,000,000 for Calgren Renewable Fuels, LLC."
"The program is also designed to stimulate operation improvements at existing ethanol facilities and the use of advanced process technology to convert cellulose and other low carbon feed stocks.
The objectives of CEPIP are to increase statewide biofuel production; retain and create California jobs; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The Energy."
http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/caeatfa/staff/2011/20110426/4a1.pdf
Didn't they say Calgren would be online by the end of the second quarter?
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board:GERS.ob - News) today announced the execution of a license agreement with Calgren Renewable Fuels providing for the use of GreenShift’s patented corn oil extraction technologies in Calgren’s 57 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Pixley, California.
GreenShift and Calgren also agreed that GreenShift would provide engineering and construction services for the replacement of Calgren’s existing Tricanter-based corn oil extraction equipment with an Alfa Laval disc stack centrifuge in order to increase yields, reliability and uptime.
In addition, Calgren has agreed to install GreenShift’s first Method II Corn Oil Extraction System to extract corn oil from Calgren’s whole stillage. With Method I (thin stillage extraction) and Method II (whole stillage extraction), Calgren will have taken the first step to achieving corn oil yields that could be as high as 1.33 pounds per bushel and having at least one advanced technology as described in the final rule for the expanded Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on December 21, 2010.
Lyle Schlyer, CEO of Calgren stated that “working with GreenShift fits into our business model of increasing efficiency and mitigating risk. We expect our corn oil yields will significantly increase with GreenShift’s technical support, and we expect to get a premium for our product with GreenShift’s marketing arm.”
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