Bioethanol Plant Start-Up in Ravenna, Nebraska
15 November 2007 16:08
In September, Abengoa Bioenergy of Ravenna successfully started up their state-of-the-art fuel ethanol facility located in Ravenna, Nebraska USA. Abengoa Bioenergy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Spanish public company, Abengoa, SA.
The plant utilizes technology licensed by VOGELBUSCH USA, and has a nameplate capacity of 88 million gallons (333 million liters) per year. The facility will use 32 million bushels (813,000 metric tons) of local corn annually. In addition to ethanol, the facility will produce approximately 150,000 tons (136,000 metric tons) of distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) and 350,000 tons (318,000 metric tons) of wet distillers grains with solubles (WDGS), co-products of the corn-to-ethanol dry milling process. The plant employs about 50 people.
Abengoa Bioenery and VOGELBUSCH USA have entered into a license agreement for the development of a series of 100 million gallon plants in USA and Europe to be designed using the VOGELBUSCH MULTICONT Continuous Fermentation Process Technology. Since establishing a presence in North America nearly 30 years ago, VOGELBUSCH USA has become the premier supplier of process engineering packages for the fuel ethanol industry. By the end of 2007, VOGELBUSCH-designed facilities in North America will produce over one billion gallons (3.8 billion liters) of alcohol annually.
For more information on this company:
Vogelbusch GmbH - Bioethanol Plants
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