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The MicroFueler will use
sugar as its main fuel source, or feedstock, along with a specially
packaged time-release yeast the company has developed. Depending on the cost
of sugar, plus water and electricity, the company says it could cost as
little as a dollar a gallon to make ethanol.
Diversified Energy Web Site
March 6, 2008 – A state of the art waste to ethanol process was recently
introduced by Diversified Ethanol Corporation, a Burnsville, Minnesota clean
tech provider. Diversified Ethanol designs and builds small scale, modular
ethanol plants that utilize existing waste as feed stocks which can be
converted to ethanol or bio diesel. For example, using their proprietary
technology, breweries, beverage recycling and food processing facilities can
now convert their liquid waste into ethanol and a new revenue stream. A 5
million gallon per year plant is currently under construction for a major
soda recycler in Southern California and is expected to be in operation by
this summer.
The company's award winning "Butterfield Closed Cycle System"™ utilizes
several technologies, including ElectroHesion™, a proprietary water
recycling system that reduces water use by up to 85%. ElectroHesion™
effectively separates the solids from the process water, insuring that the
majority of the water can be infinitely recycled. The unique design of the
ElectroHesion uses a single chamber, continuous flow through design, that
can treat from 10 to 2500 gallons per minute and uses a fraction of the
electrical energy required by other systems.
Diversified Ethanol’s innovative technologies provide solutions to two of
the biggest challenges facing conventional Ethanol production: the extensive
use of water and the expensive, fuel intensive, crop-based feedstocks such
as corn. The "Butterfield Closed Cycle System"™ solves both problems by
recycling most of the water and converting existing and inexpensive waste to
ethanol.
For example, according to a recent article in USA Today, city officials in
Champaign and Urbana, ILL were concerned when a proposed ethanol plant
nearby would require about 300 million gallons of water for processing the
product and cooling equipment, drawing from the aquifer that supplies both
cities.
Furthermore, recent studies quoted by Science and other sources are now
reporting that conventional ethanol production actually contributes more
greenhouse gases than gasoline when you factor in land use and the fuel
intensive growing of crop based feedstocks. Also adding to fuel cost is
the necessity to truck that ethanol across country from the Midwest to the
markets on the east and west coasts. However, most of these same studies
conclude that ethanol from waste is still a viable alternative.
There is a growing interest in on-site waste to ethanol production
technologies, that can convert waste products into ethanol. From citrus in
Florida to wood chips in the Northwest to potato waste in Idaho, each part
of the county has waste streams that can be converted to energy using
cellulosic and other innovative forms of production. This trend toward using
various waste products for ethanol eliminates the use of fossil fuel
intensive crop based feedstocks. Furthermore, being localized, these systems
also remove the need to ship the ethanol across country, further increasing
the efficiency of these sources of alternative energy.
“This represents a major breakthrough in Ethanol production, significantly
reducing water usage and addressing one of the primary community concerns
regarding ethanol plants”, says Bob Johnson, CEO of Diversified Ethanol.
“And using existing waste products as feedstock and delivering Ethanol
directly to local communities, eliminates the problems associated with the
more fuel intensive crop based feedstocks, and more effectively reduces
greenhouse gases."
Diversified Ethanol is a wholly owned subsidiary of Greenbelt Resources
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