RCM Thermal Kinetics completes ethanol plant expansion to 105MMGY
In New Jersey, RCM Thermal Kinetics, a division of RCM Technologies, has announced the successful completion of the first project under its NEXT (New Ethanol eXpansion Technology) engineering program, which was launched in early 2025. This inaugural project marks a historic milestone: a Midwestern ethanol facility originally designed for 40 million gallons per year (MMGY) has now been scaled to 105 MMGY, the first time a standard 40 MMGY plant has surpassed the 100-million-gallon threshold while retaining its original distillation columns and without the addition of parallel columns.
The facility underwent a series of incremental expansions with Thermal Kinetics, first to 65 MMGY, then to 86 MMGY. That ceiling has long represented the practical limit for more than a hundred ethanol plants built to this standard design across North America. By applying NEXT, Thermal Kinetics has redefined that ceiling and demonstrated how advanced process optimization can extend the capabilities of legacy infrastructure.
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