Renewable Industrial Alcohol and Grain Processing Facility

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Equipment #	E17464
Item	Renewable Industrial Alcohol and Grain Processing Facility
Category	Turnkey Operation
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Equipment Description

Renewable solvent/grain processing facility. Sterile process seed train and fermentation capable. Featuring 60,000 square feet between all the buildings. 27.23 acres over 3 parcels. Includes a full product testing and micro lab, scale house/grain receiving & storage, oil extraction system, milling, sugar clarification system, spent grain dryer and Laidig overhead feed storage/loadout. Also includes Aerobic Wastewater Treatment system, administration/office building with conference room, and a spare parts/chemical storage. Low capital entry for high protein feed products, renewable chemicals, industrial/GNS alcohol, butanol, acetone, isobutanol production systems.

Building information:
- Number of buildings: 14
- 60,000 square feet from all buildings
- Located on 27 acres
- Utilities:
  - City water
  - City sewer
  - Electricity and natural gas
- Storm water retention pond
- Aerobic wastewater treatment facility
Operations:
- Grain Handling:
  - 3 grain silos
    - 20,000 bushels
    - 80,000 bushels
    - 250,000 bushels
  - Blending system]
  - Running 1500 bushels per hour
- Milling and Conversion:
  - Hammermills (2)- 1000 Bu/hr. 250HP
  - Ribbon blender
  - Slurry Tank: 17000 gallons
  - Jet cooker
  - Cooker tank: 4000 gallons
  - Liquefication tanks:
    - 18,000 gallons
    - 33,000 gallons
  - Saccharification tank: 121,000 gallons
  - Enzyme tank: 7000 gallons
  - Rates:
    - Grind and jet cook: Approximately 1,000 bushels/hour, approximately 38 percent solids
    - Peak annual usage approximately 7.2 million bushels
- Corn Separations:
  - Rates:
    - approximately 350 gallons per minute at approximately 38 percent solids
- Nutrients and Additives:
  - Aqueous ammonia tank and containment: 11000 gallons
  - Nutrient storage tanks:
    - 7,500 gallons
    - (2) oil tanks: 7,000 gallons each
  - Bulk bag unloader with 50 pound dump station
  - Nutrient mix tank: 2,000 gallons
  - Sulfuric acid: 4500 gallons
  - Clarified sugar distribution:
    - 121000 gallons
    - 300 gallons per minute
  - Rates:
    - Ammonia: 5 gallons per minute
    - Nutrient sterilizer: 25 gallons per minute
    - Water sterilizer: 250 gallons per minute
- Seed Cultures:
  - Seed Fermenters:
    - (2) 44 gallons
    - (2) 2,000 gallons
    - (1) 28,500
- Fermentation:
  - (4) stainless fermenters: 285,000 gallons
  - CIP Systems
- Fermentation Broth Handling:
  - (10) Alfa Laval Ultra Filtration skids
  - (1) Alfa Laval CIP skid
  - Rates:
    - Up to 2000 gallons per minute dependent on filter elements
- Distillation:
  - Dilute stripping tower
  - Beer stripper: 130 gallons per minute
  - CIP system
  - Solvent Purification towers & treatment
  - Molecular sieve
- Evaporation of stillage:
  - Operated at 120 gallons per minute at less than 10 percent solids and achieved 35 percent solids
- Animal Feed Dryer:
  - Drum dryer: natural gas burner
  - Cooling drum
  - Bulk dry bins
  - Rates:
    - 8000 therms of natural gas per day
    - 7 tons per hour dry output (14 percent moisture) with 65 percent moisture on feed
- Product Tank Farm and Load Out:
  - Acetone Storage Tank: 28000 gallons-SS
  - Acetone Shift Tank: 3500 gallons-SS
  - Acetone Shift Tank: 3500 gallons-SS
  - Butanol Shift Tank: 30000 gallons-CS
  - Butanol Shift Tank: 30000 gallons-CS
  - Butanol Final Product Tank: 185000 gallons-CS
  - Ethanol Storage Tank: 15000 gallons-CS
  - Off Spec Tank: 30000 gallons-CS
- Warehouse and Other Equipment:
  - Boilers:
    - 34500 pounds of steam per hour
    - 28000 pounds of steam per hour
  - Cooling towers
    - 37.5 million btu per hour per cell-2cell
    - 7500 gpm per cell with circulation pumps
  - Chillers
  - Air compressors
  - Reverse osmosis skids
- Analytical Laboratory
  - (2) Ultimate HPLC-RID systems
  - (5) GC-FID systems
  - Anton Paar-Bench Densitometer
  - Anton Paar-Automatic Distillation Unit
  - Anton Paar-Flash Point Tester
  - MT Coulometric KF
  - (2) MT Auto titrators
  - Auto-pipettes
  - Distillation apparatus
  - Microscopy station
  - Multiple Moisture Balances
  - Multiple Analytical Balances
- Microbiology Laboratory
  - Laminar Flow Hood
  - Media prep station
  - Microscopy Station
  - (2) Amsco/Steris Model 3043: Pre-vac sterilizers
  - Multiple Incubators/Shakers
  - Full Lab RO system/Dishwasher
  - Dedicated Glassware & Carboy Inventory
  - Lab Centrifuges-J6M & multiple bench top/microtube units

Location Details:

North Central US

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