Corn Oil Extraction Planned for Iowa Ethanol Plant

Improves Quality of Distillers Grains While Providing Feedstock for Biodiesel
from DesMoinesRegister.com:
By DONNELLE ELLER
Register Business Writer

VeraSun says it’s interested in taking the corn that flows into an existing 100-million-gallon ethanol plant to create an additional renewable fuel.

VeraSun is weighing whether to spend $30 million at the north Iowa plant to extract corn oil from dried distillers grain — an ethanol byproduct — for use in biodiesel production.

“We can get two fuels out of one kernel of corn — ethanol and biodiesel,” said Keith Bruinsma, VeraSun’s vice president of corporate development. The project received state incentives Thursday.

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