How Enogen and Cellerate can boost ethanol production?

With the growing significance of ethanol plants, newer and competitive ways are being explored to facilitate ethanol processes, making it more productive. Enogen Corn Enzyme is one of the latest in-seed techniques that is specifically designed to enhance the overall ethanol production. The modern biotechnology is directed towards infusing top-grade alpha amylase enzyme directly in the grain, eliminating the need to add liquid alpha amylase. This results in reduced production costs and improved process efficiency, thus adding value to ethanol plants and yielding desirable benefits to the corn ethanol producers.

How does Alpha-amylase enzyme work?

Alpha-amylase enzyme is a key ingredient in ethanol production. Corn seeds rich in this enzyme can be highly beneficial for ethanol plants.

The enzymes help ethanol plants reduce the viscosity of corn mash and eliminate the requirement of adding a liquid form of the enzyme. This yields incredibly high levels of solids loading in liquefaction and fermentation tanks, leading to increased throughput and yield. Use of Enogen technology with alpha-amylase enzyme also ensures a significant reduction in natural gas, electricity and water usage.

Cellerate Process Technology and Cellulosic ethanol

Cellerate process technology is a revolutionary procedure that helps ethanol producers to extract increased amount of ethanol from the same kernel of corn. It employs innovative procedure to convert corn kernel fiber into cellulosic ethanol. With cellerate technology installed in ethanol plant infrastructure, the biofuel industry can witness multifold increase in their produce.

The technique does not require any changes to be made in the conventional process of obtaining ethanol from molasses. It leverages the existing infrastructure and offers significant advantages to your plant. It allows pre-treatment in the fiber that facilitates whole stillage processing, eliminating the need to separate all the fiber and starch.

Benefits of Cellerate

Cellerate is a diverse process technology which significantly increases total production by utilizing pre-existing assets like feedstock receiving and storage, product separation and product storage. Besides enabling additional throughput from a dry grind ethanol facility, the process also offers the following benefits:

lAdds value to protein; feed co-products with higher protein content

lIncreases distillers corn oil production

lCreates cellulosic ethanol

lProduces low carbon intense ethanol

Cellerate and Enogen corn when used together can offer optimum benefits to Industrial production of ethanol, including increased throughput and yield with reduction in production cost.

In light of increased fuel prices, dependency on other countries for fuel needs and detrimental impact on the environment due to harmful emissions, ethanol industry needs a tremendous boost. Employing modern and innovative techniques like Cellerate and Enogen in ethanol plants can play an important role in addressing these issues.

Know All About Ethanol-The Benefits and the Making

Rapid depletion of natural resources(petroleum, crude oil, gasoline etc,) their rising prices and harmful emissions are the concerns that set the momentum for alternative fuel. Ethanol has emerged as the right solution to the problem. Ethanol is now being viewed as the best substitute for petroleum that is largely used by vehicles across the globe. Hence,  endeavors are being directed towards enhancing ethanol production process in several bio-based industries. Ethanol can be used in its pure form or it can be blended with other gasoline constituents.

Why ethanol is the favored substitute for petroleum?

Ethanol is a highly preferred alternative to traditional gasoline fuels because it is economical and environmental-friendly. It is produced from agricultural waste products that are rich in sugar and starch. Coming from the surplus agricultural waste, ethanol extraction does not interfere with food production. Moreover, ethanol-fueled vehicles are considered to be more eco-friendly as they emit less carbon dioxide. Even the ethanol-blended fuels such as E10 (10% ethanol and 90% gasoline) can lead to reduced emissions of greenhouse gases by up to 3.9%.

Derived primarily as a result of conversion of the sun's energy, ethanol is also a renewable source. Ethanol formation starts with photosynthesis, when crops, like sugar cane, corn etc, grow using sunlight. These feedstocks are then processed into ethanol. When it burns as fuel it emits water and carbon dioxide. This is used in the next cycle of ethanol production.

Other applications of Ethanol

Apart from being used as biofuel, ethanol is also used in the production of beverages. It is the principal component of alcoholic beverages like whiskey, rum, vodka. Ethanol also finds application in the making of paints, varnishes, perfumes, pharmaceuticals, industrial solvent etc.

Ethanol Production

Ethanol is obtained from crops or plants that have large amount of sugar or constituents that can be converted into sugar. Plants like sugarcane, sugar beets and molasses, corn, wheat, grains etc are ideal raw materials for ethanol production.Fermentation process is the most widely used method for producing ethanol. Synthetic ethanol is created from non-renewable sources like coal and gas.

Ethanol from molasses and other feedstock can be obtained by two methods- dry milling process and wet mill process. Approximately 90 percent of the grain ethanol comes from the dry milling process and the remaining 10 percent is produced from wet mills.

Dry Milling Processes includes the following processes:

● The crops or plants are grinded up for easier processing .

● The sugar present in the ground feedstock is dissolved

● Next the sugar is fermented with yeast to produce ethanol.

● The ethanol is then distilled and dehydrated to attain a higher concentration.

● Gasoline or other additive(denaturant) is then added to the product to make it suitable for further use.

Due to the growing popularity of ethanol applications, researches are being conducted to develop more advanced techniques for ethanol production.  So, in the days to come, we can look forward to more dynamic roles of ethanol.