Ethanol Biofuel Sustainable Competitive Advantage And Extending Revenues Using Enzymatic Biodiesel Production

By Vic Garlington


Ethanol and other such alcohol based renewable fuels produced from corn, maize, grains and other such plant matter which are then combined or put together with, or swapped directly for fuel.

Ethanol producers have the opportunity to strengthen their profits by refining their own non-edible corn vegetable oil into biodiesel fuel using enzymatic biodiesel production processes. The enzymatic process currently will allow manufacturers to process material with as much as 5% water in the non-edible oil feed material, while not having to refine the vegetable oil to reduce FFA or eliminate waxes. This is completed with an operating temperature of 85 F. with a processing cost less than $1.00.

The large quantity of non-edible corn feedstock oils throughout the U.S. could be used in developing eco friendly biofuels. Many ethanol plants now have plans to utilize systems to get rid of the residual vegetable feedstock processed from distillers dry grains with solubles (DDGS). Oil from corn grains is most frequently pertaining to food preparation, however there is a type of non-edible corn oil that is also generated as a result from the ethanol production process. Until recently, this oil feedstock was stuck in the DDGS and shipped to the feed market segments.

The corn ethanol goal was 15 billion US gallons by year 2015 , some have calculated that if only a half pound of oil feedstock is obtained from each bushel of corn farmers produce it could generate almost 400mmg of un-edible corn oil for biofuel development. The large volume of non-edible corn oil in the U.S. it could be used to assist the bio-diesel biofuels industry and create greater net income for companies that produce ethanol from corn.

Modern corn vegetable oil equipment used for the ethanol sector are created to take out un-edible corn vegetable oil from the whole stillage operation right away ahead of creation of distillers grains solubles (DDGS). This unique processing for nonedible corn oil works extremely well precisely for corn oil to biodiesel by an ethanol producer.

The enzymatic process can process non-edible corn oils efficiently for ethanol producers, even corn oil feedstocks by means of 0-100 free fatty acids can be processed at an operating temperature of only 85 F and minimal methanol is required. There's no requirement for caustic chemicals and no formation of soap.

Employing the enzymatic biodiesel production process will provide Ethanol suppliers a better return on investment on a by-product they presently produce.




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