|
|  |
NCGA
Seeks Out Degermination's Economic Benefits to Ethanol Dry Mill Plants
(5-14-01)
The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) is continuing its work
on degermination in an ethanol dry mill with the hopes of improving
the profitability of dry grind ethanol plants. "Research has already
proven the capabilities of the degermination technology," says
Vic Miller of Oelwein, Iowa, chairman of the NCGA Customer & Business
Development Action Team. "NCGA is working to prove that this known
technology has economic benefits." Last summer, NCGA announced
an agreement was reached for a host site at the Aberdeen, S.D., facility
of Heartland Grain Fuels, LP. Heartland Grain Fuels is a partnership
between the South Dakota Wheat Growers Cooperative, one of the largest
in the state of South Dakota, and Farmland Industry. The host plant
has been operating since 1993 and is one of the prototype dry grind
ethanol plants that have become very common as ethanol expanded in the
1990s. "One of the anticipated benefits of degerming is to allow
more fermentation space to exist in an ethanol plant," said Miller.
"We're currently investigating that claim and validating its importance
for the economic benefits of degermination."
Last reviewed
May 14, 2001
|