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Central Indiana Ethanol to install corn oil extraction equipment

July 2, 2008

In Indiana, Central Indiana Ethanol has announced that it will construct a new corn oil extraction plant. The corn oil, which is taken from distillers grains, improves the quality of the livestock feed and is used in turn as a biodiesel feedstock or sold to the commodity markets for use in food products.

The equipment was provided by GS Cleantech, a subsidiary of GreenShift that has been striking corn oil deals with ethanol plants around the country. GreenShift’s extraction technology reduces plant utility costs by up to $1 million per year for a 100 million gallon per year ethanol plant that dries 100% of its distiller’s grains.

Earlier this year, GreenShift Corporation has commenced extraction of corn oil from distillers grains produced by the Western New York Energy 50 Mgy corn ethanol plant in Medina. Western New York Energy opened last December and is the first ethanol plant to operation the northeastern US. operations in December 2007 and is the first operating ethanol plant in the Northeastern U.S.

Also in New York, GreenShift announced an agreement with United Ethanol to extract up to 1.5 Mgy of crude corn oil from distillers grain co-product at United Ethanol’s new dry mill ethanol plant in New York. United Ethanol, which commenced operations in March 2007, signed co-product agreements with EPCO Carbon Dioxide to capture carbon dioxide, and the Environmental Credit Corporation and Carbon Green, to monetize carbon credits.

GS CleanTech Corporation inked an agreement with Northeast Biofuels to extract 10 Mgy of crude corn oil from the distillers grain produced at NEB’s 114 Mgy ethanol plant in Volney, NY. In the Northeast Biofuels deal, GS CleanTech will provide an extraction system to NEB and in turn receives a right to purchase the extracted corn oil at a contract price. GS AgriFuels Corporation plans to construct a 10 Mgy corn oil biodiesel facility adjacent to the NEB facility.

GreenShift Agrifuels announced a deal with Global Ethanol to extract 10 Mgy of crude corn oil from Global Ethanol’s distillers grains. The grains are a by-product from the company’s 157 Mgy corn ethanol produced at its plants in Lakota, IA and Riga, MI. Under the agreement, Green Shift AgriFuels and Global Ethanol will form a biodiesel joint venture, GS Global Biodiesel which will own and operate a 10 Mgy biodiesel plant in Lakota. The new facility will be online before the end of 2008.

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    Written by Jim Lane · Filed Under Producer News 

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