Inedible corn oil is an emerging co-product for the ethanol industry. Today, about 1/3 of all ethanol plants in production are producing some type of inedible corn oil.
Ashland Echo from yesterday's blog.
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SkunK
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
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So lets pretend Gpre were to use this oil aid, Gers would get three x's the royalty if yields were tripled because of the extraction system license? correct no?
From the article
The product is easily added to a plant’s current technology and requires no additional capital expenditure.
It sounds like it's some sort of liquid that's added to break the emulsion. It sounds like Gers is gonna benefit huge from this! Just imagine, 6% as the new extraction norm.
“The real beauty of the product is that refiners don’t have to change their process."
The aid wouldn't be possible without the foundation of the patented technology owned by Greenshift. As mentioned earlier, this does seem to be a big problem for POET. The aid needs to be added after distillation which gives Greenshift's methods a major boost. Issues of high FFA and solids are solved The scales do seem to be tipping in GERS' favor, especially with yields that dominate and leave POET's 3.5% in the dust. POET may need to rethink their strategy here. Sometimes it's better to just join the club instead of trying to start a new, lower yielding one.
Has anyone found the Ashland patent application? If published we could see if what they are using is unique or if it is dangerous. No one wants to bring in a dangerous chemical into a plant and then have the EPA and OSHA crawling all over them even more than they do now.
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