Remember the Notice of Allowance that was awarded for "Continuous Production of Biodiesel"? - this is all about refining corn oil. Click here for a glimmer of that PR about the end of January. Look here for the Application. Now, it seems we are about to take the next step. The SkunK was snooping in the Patent Office Porthole again and stumbled on an "Issue Notification". Across the top we see the application number and an issue date of this Tuesday. We can also see the new patent number. Will we get a new Patent and a new PR on Tuesday? Will we see a flurry of litigation on the biodiesel production front? - Just as we saw on the day of the first COES Patent? Stand by - Same SkunK time! - Same SkunK channel!
SEE "Issue Notification" DOCUMENT HERE
Skunk
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Ethanol Plant Energy Innovation
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
"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
South Dakota Corn? Or Corn Hugger Blog?
Corn oil can either be separated from the kernel prior to the ethanol process or from the byproduct distillers grain through corn oil extraction technology. Currently 1/3 of United States ethanol plants have the technology but with the growing market, many other plants will be installing the process this year.
Corn oil is extremely environmentally friendly as its carbon intensity has the lowest rating when comparing it to other biodiesel feed stocks. This will be especially important in states with low carbon fuels standards such as California
SEE ALL HERE
SkunK
Life is a maize that none of us will get out alive. So be a corn hugger?
Corn oil is extremely environmentally friendly as its carbon intensity has the lowest rating when comparing it to other biodiesel feed stocks. This will be especially important in states with low carbon fuels standards such as California
SEE ALL HERE
SkunK
Life is a maize that none of us will get out alive. So be a corn hugger?
Friday, April 29, 2011
04-25-2011 Dispatch to FDC
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1309 Issue of Patent [R-5]
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When the issue fee is paid and all other requirements have been met (e.g., drawings) within the time allowed by law, the application is forwarded to the printer for Final Data Capture (FDC) and final issue preparation. At this point, the application can only be retrieved if it is withdrawn from issue. The application is assigned a patent number and issue date about ten days before the application issues as a patent, and an Issue Notification is mailed to inform the applicant of the patent number and issue date. A bond paper copy of the patent grant is ribboned, sealed, and mailed by the Office of Patent Publication.
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Since this application was filed 30 Sept 2005 - [so is more than 5 years old] it seems it will receive "special handling":
All allowed applications ready for printing will be selected by chronological sequence based on the date the issue fee was paid. Special handling will be given to the following applications in these categories:
(A) Allowed cases which were made special by the Director**.
(B) Allowed cases that have a U.S. effective filing date more than 5 years old.
(C) Allowed reissue applications.
(D) Allowed applications having an effective filing date earlier than that required for declaring an interference with a copending application claiming the same subject matter.
(E) Allowed application of a party involved in a terminated interference.
To ensure that any application falling within the scope of the categories outlined above and identified by (A) to (E) receives special treatment, the examiner should **>notify, via e-mail, the Manager of the Publishing Division, Kim Terrell in the Office of Publication that a particular application (identify the application number) should be given special treatment.< The examiner should state the special treatment category outlined above.
Quotes taken from HERE
SkunK
Performing Better than Expected
Ethanol Producer Magazine
In addition to the algae project, GPRE has completed the installation of corn oil extraction technology at six of its plants. The remaining three plants will deploy the technology by the end of the third quarter. Becker said the corn oil product is performing better than expected and major feeders are expressing interest in using it for their operations.
See Here
SkunK
In addition to the algae project, GPRE has completed the installation of corn oil extraction technology at six of its plants. The remaining three plants will deploy the technology by the end of the third quarter. Becker said the corn oil product is performing better than expected and major feeders are expressing interest in using it for their operations.
See Here
SkunK
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
GPRE Reports
"Our corn oil extraction technology deployment is proceeding well. We now have six locations producing corn oil and expect to complete the installations at two additional plants by the end of the second quarter. Additionally, we plan on installing the extraction equipment at our recently-acquired Otter Tail ethanol plant during the third quarter," Becker commented. "These projects have had a positive effect on operating income in this quarter, and we expect their contributions to grow as we progress through the year."
SEE GPRE HERE
SkunK
SEE GPRE HERE
SkunK
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Cornoil – A Growing Feedstock for REG
As demand for biodiesel feedstocks continue to grow, the market for inedible corn oil continues to grow. Today, about one-third of the corn ethanol industry has corn oil extraction technology. The amount of inedible corn oil in the market will grow significantly now that POET has announced its corn oil extraction technology, VOILA. The company intends to install the technology in all 27 plants this year.
SEE REST HERE
SkunK
Press Release Part II
This press release made some very important points. One that deserves to stand out is the all encompassing provisions of the patents that GreenShift claims. I underlined the part that certainly sets the bar high for those who wish to skirt the patents.
GreenShift will continue to protect the competitive advantage of its licensees. Winsness added: "we are aware of no practical method to recover corn oil from stillage that does not also rely on our patented corn oil extraction processes. We believe this to be true regardless of the type of equipment or chemicals used; or the upstream ethanol production conditions or temperatures; or the downstream processes used to strip free fatty acids or to filter recovered oil prior to refining. We welcome and expect innovation, however, we also expect any and all use of our technologies to be lawful."
This is the strongest language that I have seen the company issue to date - as far as the all encompassing nature of these patents in the COES field. I suspect this new "notice of allowance" issued - after the USPTO has gone through all the prior art generated by the defendants - has generated this additional confidence.
SkunK
PS. Also note the excellent defense of the constitutionally based Patent System in the United States. Far from being a hindrance as some in the industry claim - it has been the cornerstone of innovation and advances in industry.
To make it SkunK simple: What would happen if you went to the Ethanol Industry parts store and you did not have to pay for the parts. You just came in and took what you wanted. GREAT! Right? Maybe not. Do you think the parts store owner would invest in inventory if he could not charge for his product? It cost money to develop, purchase and warehouse a part - just as it costs money to develop an innovation. Your next visit would be to an empty parts store. All the parts would be gone and no new parts on order. Then, with no parts stores, the industry would be screwed. The exact same thing with an Intellectual Property parts store. If all the customers shop lifted innovation - who would invest in restocking the store? Our Founding Fathers did not believe that shop lifting was good for building prosperity - and that's why they secured "for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries"
About the USPTO
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is the Federal agency for granting U.S. patents. In doing this, the USPTO fulfills the mandate of Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the Constitution that the Executive branch "promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." Under this system of protection, American industry has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employment opportunities created for millions of Americans. The strength and vitality of the U.S. economy depends directly on effective mechanisms that protect new ideas and investments in innovation and creativity. The continued demand for patents underscores the ingenuity of American inventors and entrepreneurs. The USPTO is at the cutting edge of the Nation's technological progress and achievement.
GreenShift will continue to protect the competitive advantage of its licensees. Winsness added: "we are aware of no practical method to recover corn oil from stillage that does not also rely on our patented corn oil extraction processes. We believe this to be true regardless of the type of equipment or chemicals used; or the upstream ethanol production conditions or temperatures; or the downstream processes used to strip free fatty acids or to filter recovered oil prior to refining. We welcome and expect innovation, however, we also expect any and all use of our technologies to be lawful."
This is the strongest language that I have seen the company issue to date - as far as the all encompassing nature of these patents in the COES field. I suspect this new "notice of allowance" issued - after the USPTO has gone through all the prior art generated by the defendants - has generated this additional confidence.
SkunK
PS. Also note the excellent defense of the constitutionally based Patent System in the United States. Far from being a hindrance as some in the industry claim - it has been the cornerstone of innovation and advances in industry.
To make it SkunK simple: What would happen if you went to the Ethanol Industry parts store and you did not have to pay for the parts. You just came in and took what you wanted. GREAT! Right? Maybe not. Do you think the parts store owner would invest in inventory if he could not charge for his product? It cost money to develop, purchase and warehouse a part - just as it costs money to develop an innovation. Your next visit would be to an empty parts store. All the parts would be gone and no new parts on order. Then, with no parts stores, the industry would be screwed. The exact same thing with an Intellectual Property parts store. If all the customers shop lifted innovation - who would invest in restocking the store? Our Founding Fathers did not believe that shop lifting was good for building prosperity - and that's why they secured "for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries"
About the USPTO
The United States Patent and Trademark Office is the Federal agency for granting U.S. patents. In doing this, the USPTO fulfills the mandate of Article I, Section 8, Clause 8, of the Constitution that the Executive branch "promote the progress of science and the useful arts by securing for limited times to inventors the exclusive right to their respective discoveries." Under this system of protection, American industry has flourished. New products have been invented, new uses for old ones discovered, and employment opportunities created for millions of Americans. The strength and vitality of the U.S. economy depends directly on effective mechanisms that protect new ideas and investments in innovation and creativity. The continued demand for patents underscores the ingenuity of American inventors and entrepreneurs. The USPTO is at the cutting edge of the Nation's technological progress and achievement.
GreenShift to Receive Another Corn Oil Extraction Patent
We Have Led The Way!
GreenShift Corporation (OTCQB: GERS) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for patent application number 11/241,231, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems" (the "231 Patent Application").
The new patent is broadly directed to corn oil extraction processes that include evaporating water from thin stillage to form a thin stillage concentrate; mechanically processing the thin stillage concentrate to separate oil from the thin stillage concentrate; and recovering the separated oil.
Increased Strength
The new notice of allowance is the third allowance issued by the USPTO on this particular application. To further strengthen its legal position, GreenShift requested the USPTO in each case to withdraw the earlier allowances and review all of the materials submitted by all of the defendants in GreenShift's current patent infringement litigation, including ICM, Flottwegg, and Westfalia in support of their invalidity arguments. The USPTO issued the new notice of allowance for the 231 Patent Application in spite of everything raised by each and every defendant, including ICM.
GreenShift believes that the allowance of the new patent by the USPTO is further substantial confirmation of the validity of GreenShift's patents, and significantly increases the strength of GreenShift's legal position in asserting its claims of infringement of its corn oil extraction patents.
Pioneering Patents
GreenShift's issued and allowed patents cover recovery of corn oil from the stillage co-product of dry mill ethanol production. This process has, by far, become the most cost-effective and most profitable advancement made available to dry mill producers in the history of the ethanol industry.
"We have led the way," said David Winsness, GreenShift's Chief Technology Officer. "We invented, developed and commercialized this technology. We educated the industry and created the market for back-end corn oil extraction. Our patents are pioneering patents that dominate the field, dramatically altering the landscape of the ethanol industry by enabling the industry to capture more than $2 billion per year in additional income without consuming any additional corn."
SEE ALL HERE ALPHARETTA, Georgia, USA
SEE ALL HERE Dienstag (Tuesday) Germany?
SkunK
11/241231 Patent Application HERE
New Notice of Allowability Here
Patent Mail Room Dates and History of this Patent. Doubting Thomas? You can see here the Notice of Allowance issued on 2-17-2010, and 8-11-2010 and now 4-21-2011 as mentioned in the PR above. Also as mentioned above - each of the first two Notice of Allowances were followed by a request for withdrawal and massive submissions of prior art.
SEE HERE
(This is in Word.xps format, trying something new, not sure if Billy G will allow it to work - or not. Let me know if it works for you - thanks. (If you can open it, you may have to ctrl+ it a few times)
GreenShift Corporation (OTCQB: GERS) today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a notice of allowance for patent application number 11/241,231, titled "Method of Processing Ethanol Byproducts and Related Subsystems" (the "231 Patent Application").
The new patent is broadly directed to corn oil extraction processes that include evaporating water from thin stillage to form a thin stillage concentrate; mechanically processing the thin stillage concentrate to separate oil from the thin stillage concentrate; and recovering the separated oil.
Increased Strength
The new notice of allowance is the third allowance issued by the USPTO on this particular application. To further strengthen its legal position, GreenShift requested the USPTO in each case to withdraw the earlier allowances and review all of the materials submitted by all of the defendants in GreenShift's current patent infringement litigation, including ICM, Flottwegg, and Westfalia in support of their invalidity arguments. The USPTO issued the new notice of allowance for the 231 Patent Application in spite of everything raised by each and every defendant, including ICM.
GreenShift believes that the allowance of the new patent by the USPTO is further substantial confirmation of the validity of GreenShift's patents, and significantly increases the strength of GreenShift's legal position in asserting its claims of infringement of its corn oil extraction patents.
Pioneering Patents
GreenShift's issued and allowed patents cover recovery of corn oil from the stillage co-product of dry mill ethanol production. This process has, by far, become the most cost-effective and most profitable advancement made available to dry mill producers in the history of the ethanol industry.
"We have led the way," said David Winsness, GreenShift's Chief Technology Officer. "We invented, developed and commercialized this technology. We educated the industry and created the market for back-end corn oil extraction. Our patents are pioneering patents that dominate the field, dramatically altering the landscape of the ethanol industry by enabling the industry to capture more than $2 billion per year in additional income without consuming any additional corn."
SEE ALL HERE ALPHARETTA, Georgia, USA
SEE ALL HERE Dienstag (Tuesday) Germany?
SkunK
11/241231 Patent Application HERE
New Notice of Allowability Here
Patent Mail Room Dates and History of this Patent. Doubting Thomas? You can see here the Notice of Allowance issued on 2-17-2010, and 8-11-2010 and now 4-21-2011 as mentioned in the PR above. Also as mentioned above - each of the first two Notice of Allowances were followed by a request for withdrawal and massive submissions of prior art.
SEE HERE
(This is in Word.xps format, trying something new, not sure if Billy G will allow it to work - or not. Let me know if it works for you - thanks. (If you can open it, you may have to ctrl+ it a few times)
Monday, April 25, 2011
Patent Pending
The SkunK spends some time looking at the GreenShift patents pending - at least the ones that I am aware of. Sometimes I get a nugget, sometimes I get a noogie, - sometimes I get something like this. This letter is dated the 22nd of April (2010 - thanks nobody), but as you notice on the first page it is in response to a letter dated Feb of 2011. I believe the 2010 is a typo and was meant to be 2011. As you can see below the same 12 page document below - the mail room date is 22 April, 2011.
If nothing else this gives one an idea of how much work goes into getting a patent. Words matter. Patents are certainly not given out like toothpicks at an all you can eat buffet.
SkunK
PS - Here is the original application:
Method and Systems for Enhancing Oil Recovery from Ethanol Production Byproducts
Saturday, April 23, 2011
The New Schedule
Last Friday's meeting (eight days ago) (as reported here) led to this new timeline:
Joint Claim Construction Statement due April 29, 2011;
CleanTech Opening Markman Brief due May 27, 2011;
Opposing Markman Briefs due June 17, 2011;
CleanTech Reply Brief due July 1, 2011.
The Markman hearing will be held sometime after July 15, 2011.
SEE new Court order HERE
SkunK
Joint Claim Construction Statement due April 29, 2011;
CleanTech Opening Markman Brief due May 27, 2011;
Opposing Markman Briefs due June 17, 2011;
CleanTech Reply Brief due July 1, 2011.
The Markman hearing will be held sometime after July 15, 2011.
SEE new Court order HERE
SkunK
Friday, April 22, 2011
GPRE 1Q
Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. to Discuss First Quarter 2011 Financial Results
OMAHA, Neb., April 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:GPRE) will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2011 financial results on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. ET
SEE HERE
A significant percentage of GreenShift's licensed COES are at work in GPRE's plants. Their reports are normally quite clear about the results of the COES build out. GreenShift seems quite limited in what they can say about their partners progress since their partners rightfully wish to control what - and how - information is released about themselves. This should be an interesting report on GreenShift - through the eyes of GPRE.
SkunK
OMAHA, Neb., April 20, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq:GPRE) will hold a conference call to discuss its first quarter 2011 financial results on Thursday, April 28, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. ET
SEE HERE
A significant percentage of GreenShift's licensed COES are at work in GPRE's plants. Their reports are normally quite clear about the results of the COES build out. GreenShift seems quite limited in what they can say about their partners progress since their partners rightfully wish to control what - and how - information is released about themselves. This should be an interesting report on GreenShift - through the eyes of GPRE.
SkunK
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Kansas City to host distillers grains symposium May 11-12
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Interesting, but got 1 Part Wrong
Very good inside baseball article. I take umbrage at this however:
"Although corn oil extraction is perhaps the most attractive of the five technologies because of its relatively low cost, the 1.33 pounds-per-bushel minimum is not achievable at this time"
See Article HERE
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This from the recent GREENSHIFT 10K:
"The EPA has designated back-end corn oil extraction as an Advanced Technology. EPA further clarified that to get credit for an Advanced Technology using back-end extraction, the ethanol plant must extract corn oil from 90% of its production and achieve an annual recovery of 1.33 pounds of corn oil per bushel of corn processed to make ethanol. As an example, if a typical plant uses corn containing about 3.8% corn oil, or approximately 2.1 pounds of corn oil in a 56-pound bushel, then EPA’s target represents about a 62% total oil extraction rate.
Plant conditions vary, but our patented and patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies can generally recover about 70% of the oil from thin stillage, or about 0.74 pounds per bushel of corn. We can double that yield to approximately 1.5 pounds per bushel with another method applied to whole stillage. While each ethanol plant will be different, depending on the corn available, chemicals used, and other process variations, an Advanced Technology can be claimed by an ethanol producer that uses our technologies to extract corn oil." p.11
SkunK
"Although corn oil extraction is perhaps the most attractive of the five technologies because of its relatively low cost, the 1.33 pounds-per-bushel minimum is not achievable at this time"
See Article HERE
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This from the recent GREENSHIFT 10K:
"The EPA has designated back-end corn oil extraction as an Advanced Technology. EPA further clarified that to get credit for an Advanced Technology using back-end extraction, the ethanol plant must extract corn oil from 90% of its production and achieve an annual recovery of 1.33 pounds of corn oil per bushel of corn processed to make ethanol. As an example, if a typical plant uses corn containing about 3.8% corn oil, or approximately 2.1 pounds of corn oil in a 56-pound bushel, then EPA’s target represents about a 62% total oil extraction rate.
Plant conditions vary, but our patented and patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies can generally recover about 70% of the oil from thin stillage, or about 0.74 pounds per bushel of corn. We can double that yield to approximately 1.5 pounds per bushel with another method applied to whole stillage. While each ethanol plant will be different, depending on the corn available, chemicals used, and other process variations, an Advanced Technology can be claimed by an ethanol producer that uses our technologies to extract corn oil." p.11
SkunK
"Nintendo for biofuel nerds."
But I-BOS (the Interactive Biorefinery Operations Simulator) is no game. It's based on real Iowa biorefineries that are producing ethanol and biodiesel. It's designed to help students in Iowa State's biorenewable resources and technology program learn about biofuel production. And it could be used by the biofuel industry to help train employees to operate a biorefinery.
"This could be the major component of a curriculum for teaching biofuels operators how to run a plant," Grewell said. "It's like a flight simulator for pilots."
SEE ALL HERE
SkunK
2Kool
"This could be the major component of a curriculum for teaching biofuels operators how to run a plant," Grewell said. "It's like a flight simulator for pilots."
SEE ALL HERE
SkunK
2Kool
Monday, April 18, 2011
CSO Competitor
CSO. Corn Stillage Oil. Corn Oil from Stillage. Sound Familiar? Listen to this:
SEE HERE
SEE PDF HERE
SkunK
Here is some like wording from GreenShift:
start-up and optimization of systems used to extract corn oil from stillage . . . "Method of Freeing the Bound Oil Present in Whole Stillage and Thin Stillage” (the ’729 Patent). . .increase co-product value;. . . proprietary corn oil extraction technology . . .ethanol producers with a powerful competitive advantage. . . ethanol producer paybacks of less than 1 year at current market prices.
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Here is recent article with same Rick Davis/Soy Energy LLC as in above brochure HERE. They seem to be building a new front end on a failed soy biodiesel plant so they can handle corn oil.
HERE is the Ball Construction site and they have a link to the CSO brochure from their site.
SEE HERE
SEE PDF HERE
SkunK
Here is some like wording from GreenShift:
start-up and optimization of systems used to extract corn oil from stillage . . . "Method of Freeing the Bound Oil Present in Whole Stillage and Thin Stillage” (the ’729 Patent). . .increase co-product value;. . . proprietary corn oil extraction technology . . .ethanol producers with a powerful competitive advantage. . . ethanol producer paybacks of less than 1 year at current market prices.
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Here is recent article with same Rick Davis/Soy Energy LLC as in above brochure HERE. They seem to be building a new front end on a failed soy biodiesel plant so they can handle corn oil.
HERE is the Ball Construction site and they have a link to the CSO brochure from their site.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Meeting This Afternoon . . .
Entry Setting Status Conference
The court sets this matter for a telephone status conference on Friday, April 15, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern). Counsel will be notified of instructions for participating in the conference by a separate email. Further, counsel are to email the court at JudgeLynchchamber @insd.uscourts.gov to provide the name(s) of counsel who will be participating on behalf of the parties.
So ORDERED.
SEE HERE
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Status Conference n. a pre-trial meeting of attorneys before a judge required under Federal Rules of Procedure and in many states to inform the court as to how the case is proceeding, what discovery has been conducted (depositions, interrogatories, production of documents), any settlement negotiations, probable length of trial, and other matters relevant to moving the case toward trial. Court rules usually require the filing of a status conference statement prior to the conference. In Federal courts the status conference is also the occasion for setting a trial date.
SkunK
The court sets this matter for a telephone status conference on Friday, April 15, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. (Eastern). Counsel will be notified of instructions for participating in the conference by a separate email. Further, counsel are to email the court at JudgeLynchchamber @insd.uscourts.gov to provide the name(s) of counsel who will be participating on behalf of the parties.
So ORDERED.
SEE HERE
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Status Conference n. a pre-trial meeting of attorneys before a judge required under Federal Rules of Procedure and in many states to inform the court as to how the case is proceeding, what discovery has been conducted (depositions, interrogatories, production of documents), any settlement negotiations, probable length of trial, and other matters relevant to moving the case toward trial. Court rules usually require the filing of a status conference statement prior to the conference. In Federal courts the status conference is also the occasion for setting a trial date.
SkunK
Fuel Ethanol Workshop (FEW)
WEDNESDAY, June 29 2011
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Concurrent Track
Corn Oil Extraction: How, How Much? Why and When?
Upwards of 100 U.S. corn ethanol producers are currently faced with the dilemma of whether to extract corn oil, how much to extract, when to make the investment, and which technology to select. Corn oil extraction is arguably one of the fastest routes to untapped ethanol plant revenue, but do the latest revenue and extraction yield claims hold up under producer scrutiny? Discerning industry professionals will find out as four top-tier competitors in this space talk tech, money, and hard data.
•Moderator: McCord Pankonen, Ashland Inc. / Ashland Hercules Water Technologies
•Chris Kennedy, GreenShift Corp.
Corn Oil Extraction – Tastes Best When Needed Most
SEE HERE
•Joseph Riley, FE Solutions
Corn Oil in 2011 and it's Impact on DDGS
•John Fulcher, Nalco
Corn Oil Extraction Optimization
•Kurt Dieker, ICM Inc.
Decoupling Oil Separation From Plant Operations**
PS **Now why would anyone, especially ICM - want to Decouple Oil separation from Plant Operations?? lol
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Poet - the Competition?
POET is now selling Voilà ™ corn oil from POET Biorefining – Hudson (S.D.) into biodiesel and feed markets, and its success has prompted POET to start plans for rolling out its patent-pending production to its other plants. The rollout schedule is still being set, but the company will begin installation this year on the first plants.
POET’s specific brand of corn oil is different thanks to the low-energy BPX fermentation process (“cold-cook”), which eliminates heat from fermentation. When corn oil is captured on the back-end of that process following BPX, it is a higher-quality product with a lower amount of free fatty acids.
SEE HERE
SkunK
POET’s specific brand of corn oil is different thanks to the low-energy BPX fermentation process (“cold-cook”), which eliminates heat from fermentation. When corn oil is captured on the back-end of that process following BPX, it is a higher-quality product with a lower amount of free fatty acids.
SEE HERE
SkunK
Monday, April 11, 2011
Another Potential Customer?
Corn Oil Extraction Equipment
Homeland is in the process of evaluating whether it will install equipment that will allow us to separate corn oil from the distillers grains we produce. This would be a new revenue source for Homeland. Homeland has not determined when or if it will install this corn oil extraction equipment.
See Here
From their web site HERE:
Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC, in Lawler, IA, has started processing ethanol with the capabilities of producing one hundred million gallon of ethanol annually.
SkunK
Lawton is 125 miles east of the huge GPRE Lakota IA plant already featuring GERS COES.
Homeland is in the process of evaluating whether it will install equipment that will allow us to separate corn oil from the distillers grains we produce. This would be a new revenue source for Homeland. Homeland has not determined when or if it will install this corn oil extraction equipment.
See Here
From their web site HERE:
Homeland Energy Solutions, LLC, in Lawler, IA, has started processing ethanol with the capabilities of producing one hundred million gallon of ethanol annually.
SkunK
Lawton is 125 miles east of the huge GPRE Lakota IA plant already featuring GERS COES.
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Cut to the Bone
GreenShift Corporation had 17 full-time employees as of April 15, 2010. As you see below we now have 14 including the Executive officers.
EMPLOYEES
"GreenShift Corporation currently has 14 full-time employees as of March 30, 2011. In addition to its executive officers, GreenShift employs sales personnel, staff engineers, process managers, maintenance managers, administrative personnel and general facility technicians."
Besides the Executive Officers and Chris Kennedy who is on sales literature and attended this years Ethanol Conference as part of the GreenShift team - the rest of the names below are only speculation on the part of SkunK gleamed from various public sources.
Executive Officers
Kevin Kreisler, Chairman of the Board, CEO
Edward Carroll, President, Chief Financial Officer
Greg Barlage, Chief Operating Officer
David Winsness, Chief Technology Officer
Richard Krablin, Executive Vice President, Special Projects
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Chris Kennedy, Project Manager
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David Fred Cantrell - retired/on call? Not full time?
Dan Lester - Project Manager, GS CleanTech. Past: Warnecke Design Engineer 2004-2007; Imagetech Inc. Engineer 2001-2004. Education: Devry University EET, Electronics Engineering, 1998 — 2001
Patrick Bush - GreenShift’s Vice President of Biodiesel Technology
Dan Page - Attended 2008 Ethanol Conference for Greenshift Corp from Alpharetta, GA.
Dan Saltzman - Controller Greenshift Corporation, Past: 2001 — 2004 Assistant Controller, New York Mortgage; 1989 — 2000 Assistant Vice President Financial Reporting, Scudder; 1984 — 1997 Bucknell University
Jacqueline Flynn - Controller of GreenShift Corporation since 2006. She is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Accounting Officer for ESYM. She is also the CFO for CICS. She has twenty years experience in financial accounting for both public and private companies.
John W. Davis - John "Whit" Davis, has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.B.A from Boston University. GS CleanTech's new Vice President of Operations (as of PR 22 Jan '07), has a broad base of diversified management, engineering, operational and business development experience. Mr. Davis led the deployment of GS CleanTech's existing Corn Oil Extraction System installations at Little Sioux Corn Processors and Glacial Lakes Energy. Most recently in his career, Mr. Davis was the technical director for special projects at Vortex Dehydration Technology, where he led product design, development and implementation for many applications of the technologies underlying GS CleanTech's Tornado Generator[TM]. Mr. Davis holds the rank of Lt. Commander as a reservist with the U.S. Coast Guard. (One of four original COES Inventors.)
SkunK
EMPLOYEES
"GreenShift Corporation currently has 14 full-time employees as of March 30, 2011. In addition to its executive officers, GreenShift employs sales personnel, staff engineers, process managers, maintenance managers, administrative personnel and general facility technicians."
Besides the Executive Officers and Chris Kennedy who is on sales literature and attended this years Ethanol Conference as part of the GreenShift team - the rest of the names below are only speculation on the part of SkunK gleamed from various public sources.
Executive Officers
Kevin Kreisler, Chairman of the Board, CEO
Edward Carroll, President, Chief Financial Officer
Greg Barlage, Chief Operating Officer
David Winsness, Chief Technology Officer
Richard Krablin, Executive Vice President, Special Projects
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Chris Kennedy, Project Manager
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David Fred Cantrell - retired/on call? Not full time?
Dan Lester - Project Manager, GS CleanTech. Past: Warnecke Design Engineer 2004-2007; Imagetech Inc. Engineer 2001-2004. Education: Devry University EET, Electronics Engineering, 1998 — 2001
Patrick Bush - GreenShift’s Vice President of Biodiesel Technology
Dan Page - Attended 2008 Ethanol Conference for Greenshift Corp from Alpharetta, GA.
Dan Saltzman - Controller Greenshift Corporation, Past: 2001 — 2004 Assistant Controller, New York Mortgage; 1989 — 2000 Assistant Vice President Financial Reporting, Scudder; 1984 — 1997 Bucknell University
Jacqueline Flynn - Controller of GreenShift Corporation since 2006. She is the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and Chief Accounting Officer for ESYM. She is also the CFO for CICS. She has twenty years experience in financial accounting for both public and private companies.
John W. Davis - John "Whit" Davis, has a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and an M.B.A from Boston University. GS CleanTech's new Vice President of Operations (as of PR 22 Jan '07), has a broad base of diversified management, engineering, operational and business development experience. Mr. Davis led the deployment of GS CleanTech's existing Corn Oil Extraction System installations at Little Sioux Corn Processors and Glacial Lakes Energy. Most recently in his career, Mr. Davis was the technical director for special projects at Vortex Dehydration Technology, where he led product design, development and implementation for many applications of the technologies underlying GS CleanTech's Tornado Generator[TM]. Mr. Davis holds the rank of Lt. Commander as a reservist with the U.S. Coast Guard. (One of four original COES Inventors.)
SkunK
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
Could It be? Annual Report is Out!
Its official - We Moved!
GreenShift’s corporate headquarters were previously located in New York, New York under a $10,000 per month five year lease terminating in June 2011. In an effort to further reduce costs, the Company moved out of this office in November 2010. The Company’s corporate headquarters are now located in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Alpharetta lease is a three year term that terminated on February 2011, at which time the lease was extended by another year. The monthly lease payment is $1,600. p.25
A Backstop
MIF and current management have provided GreenShift and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries with more than about $14.8 million between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2010. Viridis, the Kreisler Trust and our chairman collectively loaned about $8.4 million of this amount, about half of which was subsequently canceled, forgiven and contributed to shareholders' equity. Additional financing from these investors is available if necessary. p.34
Infringement - Recent Synopsis
As part of the MDL Case, on November 15, 2010, GS CleanTech amended its complaint filed in the New York I Action to include a claim of patent infringement personally against the founder, CEO and President of ICM, and ICM amended its complaint filed in the Kansas action to include a claim seeking a declaratory judgment that the '858 Patent is unenforceable. On November 30, 2010, in the MDL Case, GS CleanTech filed a motion to dismiss ICM's amended complaint (including its claim seeking a declaratory judgment that the '858 Patent is unenforceable) or, in the alternative, to transfer the Kansas case to New York for inclusion in the New York I Action. ICM has opposed the motion to dismiss. On December 10, 2010, in the MDL Case, GS CleanTech filed motions to strike the affirmative defenses that the '858 Patent is unenforceable asserted by Cardinal Ethanol, LLC; Big River Resources Galva, LLC; and Big River Resources West Burlington, LLC; and Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC. Each defendant has opposed the respective motion to strike. On February 14, 2011, GS CleanTech notified the court in the MDL Case that it will not be proceeding with a motion for preliminary injunction. On February 24, 2011, in the MDL Case, in connection with its breach of contract counterclaim against GreenShift Corporation, Adkins Ethanol, LLC filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings or in the alternative partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on the issue of breach of contract and partial summary judgment on the issue of damages. On March 24, 2011, GreenShift filed an opposition to Adkins’ motion.
Management's Look at Infringement Cases
There have been no substantive rulings on the merits on any of the actions included in the MDL Case and Management is unable to characterize or evaluate the probability of any outcome at this time. The Company intends to take all necessary steps to bring infringement of its patents to an end, including filing additional lawsuits involving any and all infringing use of the Company’s patents. The Company further plans to seek additional relief for instances of willful infringement. The Company’s position is that any infringing ethanol producer is liable for any infringing use of the Company’s patented technologies beginning on the publication date of the application that led to the ‘858 Patent.
SEE HERE
GreenShift’s corporate headquarters were previously located in New York, New York under a $10,000 per month five year lease terminating in June 2011. In an effort to further reduce costs, the Company moved out of this office in November 2010. The Company’s corporate headquarters are now located in Alpharetta, Georgia. The Alpharetta lease is a three year term that terminated on February 2011, at which time the lease was extended by another year. The monthly lease payment is $1,600. p.25
A Backstop
MIF and current management have provided GreenShift and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries with more than about $14.8 million between January 1, 2005 and December 31, 2010. Viridis, the Kreisler Trust and our chairman collectively loaned about $8.4 million of this amount, about half of which was subsequently canceled, forgiven and contributed to shareholders' equity. Additional financing from these investors is available if necessary. p.34
Infringement - Recent Synopsis
As part of the MDL Case, on November 15, 2010, GS CleanTech amended its complaint filed in the New York I Action to include a claim of patent infringement personally against the founder, CEO and President of ICM, and ICM amended its complaint filed in the Kansas action to include a claim seeking a declaratory judgment that the '858 Patent is unenforceable. On November 30, 2010, in the MDL Case, GS CleanTech filed a motion to dismiss ICM's amended complaint (including its claim seeking a declaratory judgment that the '858 Patent is unenforceable) or, in the alternative, to transfer the Kansas case to New York for inclusion in the New York I Action. ICM has opposed the motion to dismiss. On December 10, 2010, in the MDL Case, GS CleanTech filed motions to strike the affirmative defenses that the '858 Patent is unenforceable asserted by Cardinal Ethanol, LLC; Big River Resources Galva, LLC; and Big River Resources West Burlington, LLC; and Lincolnland Agri-Energy, LLC. Each defendant has opposed the respective motion to strike. On February 14, 2011, GS CleanTech notified the court in the MDL Case that it will not be proceeding with a motion for preliminary injunction. On February 24, 2011, in the MDL Case, in connection with its breach of contract counterclaim against GreenShift Corporation, Adkins Ethanol, LLC filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings or in the alternative partial summary judgment on the issue of liability on the issue of breach of contract and partial summary judgment on the issue of damages. On March 24, 2011, GreenShift filed an opposition to Adkins’ motion.
Management's Look at Infringement Cases
There have been no substantive rulings on the merits on any of the actions included in the MDL Case and Management is unable to characterize or evaluate the probability of any outcome at this time. The Company intends to take all necessary steps to bring infringement of its patents to an end, including filing additional lawsuits involving any and all infringing use of the Company’s patents. The Company further plans to seek additional relief for instances of willful infringement. The Company’s position is that any infringing ethanol producer is liable for any infringing use of the Company’s patented technologies beginning on the publication date of the application that led to the ‘858 Patent.
SEE HERE
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