Sunday, October 7, 2018

Biorefinery Under Construction In Grand Forks -- October 7, 2018

Link here. The story is dated August 22, 2018. A reader writes that construction of this plant began aobut six weeks ago.
Construction for an ethanol plant that will turn hundreds of thousands of tons of beet waste into fuel in Grand Forks is officially underway.
The Red River Biorefiner is north of Simplot in Grand Forks. Dirtwork has already begun at the 11-acre construction site that will be home to the 80,000-square-foot ethanol plant.
The project that has been four years in the making is expected to be completed in December 2019. It will turn 500,000 metric tons of agricultural byproducts, including sugar beet waste, into about 18.8 million gallons of ethanol each year.
Trucks will deliver waste into the plant 24/7, and the fuel will be sold in California markets.
The biorefinery will have the lowest carbon footprint in the U.S. for a ethanol production facility of its kind, Chmielewski said, adding it will not produce odors from processing sugar beet waste.
More at the link. 

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