Two Biofuels from one Crop: Ethanol and Biodiesel
VeraSun Erergy Corporation (NYSE: VSE) has a process to get more energy from each bushel of corn. They can make both ethanol and biodiesel from corn. VeraSun is "the nations second largest ethanol producer".
Here's the process. "VeraSun identified an opportunity to utilize oil extracted from distillers grains, undervalued as a feed component, as an excellent feedstock for biodiesel. Removing the oil from distillers grains both increases the value of the oil for fuel use, and enhances the resulting distillers grains as a livestock feed by concentrating protein and reducing fat content."
"Biodiesel can be blended with petroleum diesel to run in all existing diesel engines." Production has grown from "75 million gallons in 2005" and is expected to "more than one billion gallons by 2010 and double to two billion gallons by 2020."
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