Monday, March 13, 2006

New Technology enables biodiesel production from corn oil

This looks like a promising way to get more fuel out of every bushel of cor with a technology already in use on a commercial basis. I would like to see an analysis of how this process affects profitability and the energy balance. -- Jeffrey Goettemoeller
Veridium Receives Fourth Order for Ethanol By-Product Recovery Technology; System to Bring Company to $5.6 Million in Annualized Revenues from New Clean Technology:
business wire -- press release -- 3/13/2006
"DDG contains the majority of the corn oil that was present in the kernel. Today, the 1 billion bushels of corn currently used in the dry mill ethanol process contain roughly 300 million gallons of corn oil that is currently sold for about $0.03 per pound as commercial feed. The new Veridium technology presents another option - cost effective conversion into Biodiesel "

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