|  | | Development of a Biorefining Model for Corn Processing
Date Approved: 12/05/2003
Amount: $24,920
Lead: Roger Ruan, Co-director of the Center for Biorefining
Contact Person: Roger Ruan
Benefits and Deliverables:
- Make bio-ethanol fuels more competitive with gasoline fuels
- Identify and evaluate technologies suitable for lab scale processes
- Develop and test individual blocks/modules
- Conduct preliminary energy balance and economic analysis
- Recommend R&D tasks for further scale-up testing
Description:
This
project is part of an effort to promote the biorefining concept for the
corn industry. The primary goal of this project is to develop a lab
scale model that eventually can be scaled up for production. The model
will utilize the corn crop to produce ethanol fuels, energy to run the
plant, and value-added byproducts such as protein isolates, lipids,
biopolymers, and biodiesel. The researchers anticipate that the
biorefining approach can potentially reduce the overall ethanol plant
product costs by 30-40%, making bio-ethanol fuels highly competitive
with gasoline fuels.
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