All You Need to Know About Ethanol Plant Manufactures and Cogeneration EPC Projects Ethanol is a corn-based alternative fuel developed in the United States. Crop waste and wood are also utilised as cellulosic feedstock’s, though this is less common. Ethanol factories in the United States are concentrated in the Midwest because to its proximity to maize production. Plants located near significant population regions get maize by rail or use alternate feedstock’s outside of the Midwest. The type of feedstock utilised determines the ethanol manufacturing method. Starch or sugar-based feedstock takes less time to process than cellulosic feedstock. Production of Ethanol from Starch and Sugar The majority of ethanol generated comes from starch-based crops processed in dry or wet mills. Due to lower capital costs, about 90% of Ethanol Plants Manufactures are from dry mills. Dry-milling is a method of grinding corn into flour and fermenting it into ethanol with the addition of distiller’s grains and carbon dioxide as co-products. Wet-mill operations create corn sweeteners, ethanol, and a variety of additional co-products (such as corn oil and starch).Prior to refining these components into products like ethanol, wet mills separate starch, protein, and fibre in corn.
Cogeneration EPC Projects The simultaneous production of electricity and heat using a single fuel such as biogas, natural gas, coal, waste gas, biomass, liquid fuels, and renewable gases is known as cogeneration or CHP (combined heat and power). The heat generated during the energy generation process (for example, from a gas turbine's exhaust systems) is caught and used to create high and low level steam. Steam can be utilised as a heat source for both industrial and home applications, and it can also be used to create electricity in steam turbines.