GS CleanTech Executes Agreement with Ethanol Producer Tuesday January 23, 11:17 am ET Company's Technologies Convert Ethanol Co-products Into Additional Fuel
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--GS CleanTech Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSCT - News) today
announced its execution of a definitive agreement with Central Indiana
Ethanol, LLC ("Central") to extract about 1.5 million gallons per year
of crude corn oil from Central Indiana's distillers dried grains
("DDG") for conversion into a biodiesel feedstock using GS CleanTech's
proprietary corn oil extraction technology.
GS CleanTech's patent-pending Corn Oil Extraction Systems(TM) have
been engineered to help ethanol producers to cost-effectively and
rapidly increase their fuel yields and enhance their revenues and
earnings out of existing crops. GS CleanTech provides turn-key
extraction systems to participating ethanol producers in return for
long-term agreements to purchase the extracted corn oil at a discount
to prevailing fuel prices but at a price that also works out to a
premium to the value of the corn oil when it is bound in the DDG.
In all, GS CleanTech's publicly announced contracts will produce
about 23.5 million gallons per year of crude corn oil for conversion
into biodiesel fuel as GS CleanTech successfully deploys the relevant
corn oil extraction systems during 2007 and 2008. At current fuel
prices, this corn oil has a current market value of about $17 million
to about $23 million as a biodiesel feedstock. This value increases
with increasing fuel prices under GS CleanTech's program.
GS CleanTech generates revenue by selling its extraction systems
and process engineering services and from ongoing annuities arising
from the purchase and sale of the extracted corn oil. GS CleanTech's
affiliated fuel production company, GS AgriFuels Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSGF - News) has the exclusive right to purchase the
extracted corn oil for conversion into biodiesel fuel. Once converted
into biodiesel fuel, the announced 23.5 million gallons per year of
corn oil also corresponds to biodiesel sales of more than $55 million.
David Winsness, GS CleanTech's president and chief executive
officer said that "Corn-derived ethanol producers clearly recognize
the need to improve their energy balance. The surest and quickest way
to do this is to implement technologies that enhance the yields and
operating efficiencies of traditional production processes. Our corn
oil extraction technology is the first of several new technologies
that we are bringing to ethanol producers to meet those objectives,
including integral biodiesel production, biomass gasification and
carbon dioxide capture and conversion technologies." GS CleanTech's Focus on Ethanol Production GS CleanTech is focused on delivering these technologies and
process innovations to the ethanol production industry with a view
towards maximizing the yield of corn-based ethanol production. GS
CleanTech's currently available offerings in its ethanol program
include its: - Corn oil extraction systems;
- Small-scale modular biodiesel production systems; and,
- Biomass gasification and gas to liquids systems.
GS CleanTech is also developing new technologies, such as its
carbon dioxide algal bioreactor technology, for application at ethanol
facilities. Traditional ethanol processing converts each bushel of corn, which
weighs about 54 pounds, into about 18 pounds of ethanol, 18 pounds of
carbon dioxide, and 18 pounds of distillers dried grains, which
contain about 2 pounds of fat. This corresponds to a corn to clean
fuel conversion efficiency of about 33%, or about 2.8 gallons of clean
fuel per bushel of corn. GS CleanTech's ambition is to increase this
efficiency as much as possible by converting as co-products such as
DDG and carbon dioxide into additional renewable fuels. GS CleanTech's patent-pending corn oil extraction and biodiesel
processing technologies convert the fat in the DDG into a high grade
corn oil that can then be converted into biodiesel on close to a 1:1
volumetric basis. This increases the corn to clean fuel conversion
efficiency described above to 36%, or about 3.0 gallons of clean fuel
per bushel of corn. This increased yield per bushel may not seem like
much, but it adds up. GS CleanTech's corn oil extraction systems allow a typical 50
million gallon per year ethanol production facility to increase their
revenues by more than 3% by extracting and selling up to 3.3 million
gallons per year of corn oil. This revenue increase can be even more dramatic for qualified
ethanol producers that wish to participate in GS CleanTech's
co-located corn oil to biodiesel model, where biodiesel is produced
directly on site at participating ethanol facilities. GS CleanTech's Corn Oil Extraction System(TM) GS CleanTech's Corn Oil Extraction System(TM) offers the following
compelling benefits for ethanol producers:
- Increased Revenue - The corn oil extracted is readily amenable
to refining into biodiesel fuel which creates a new revenue
stream for participating ethanol facilities;
- Reduced Operating Costs and Emissions - Corn oil removal can
improve drying efficiency by more than 10% with reduced
natural gas or coal needs and reduced emissions (NOx, SOx,
VOC, and CO2);
- Low Operating Costs - The system requires less than $0.05 per
gallon of corn oil produced;
- High Recovery Rates - The technology is capable of recovering
up to 75% of the corn oil within the DDG; and,
- Increased Inclusion Rates - Corn oil removal can improve
defatted DDG marketability and inclusion rates by reducing fat
content.
About GS CleanTech Corporation
GS CleanTech Corporation provides applied engineering and
technology transfer services based on clean technologies and process
innovations that make it cost-effective and easy to recycle and reuse
resources. Additional information on GS CleanTech and its technologies
is available online at www.gs-cleantech.com.
GS CleanTech and GS AgriFuels are majority owned by GreenShift
Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GSHF - News), a company devoted to
facilitating the efficient use of natural resources. Additional
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