[Gasification] Gasification to replace natural gas for ethanol production

[CAVM at aol.com]

Jonathan,  you are correct.  There is a vast surplus of DDG,  dried 
distillers grains, in the areas where the most ethanol plants are  sited.  Usually 
these materials are used in feed lot cattle rations or hog  rations.  There is not 
nearly enough livestock in the right  places to take advantage of this 
abundance of grain residue.  
 
Some of the ethanol plants are burning the DDG in boilers to produce the  
heat for the ethanol process both to dispose of the surplus and to defeat the  
high price of natural gas.  Does this give anybody any ideas?
 
Neal
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What  about using all of the surplus corn mash that is produced in extracting 
 
the starch from Corn?  It would have be be dried first (using  solar?), but 
the energy content of the mash itself would probably equal  that of the 
ethanol produced in the plant.

Jonathan  Pratt
iENERGY Inc.
www.woodgas-stove.com