KL Energy pursues distributed, low-waste, small refinery model for cellulosic ethanol

In Wyoming, KL Energy said that the only non-usable waste from its 1.5 Mgy cellulosic ethanol plant at Upton is discharged water, and even that will ultimately will be reused by the plant’s process, which also does not use chemicals or acids. KL CEO Steve Corcoran said that the company remains focused on a distributed model of 5 Mgy plants based on its on its Upton plants.

Corcoran told Forbes that the smaller plants are less expensive to construct and reduce transportation costs by taking wood waste from a smaller radius and distributing ethanol into a smaller community-based footprint.

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