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To: Keith in Iowa

You can make corn flakes out of the waste product of ethanol?


16 posted on 01/22/2007 8:19:18 AM PST by milwguy
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To: milwguy
You can make corn flakes out of the waste product of ethanol?

Yes. It's not waste product, it's called 'co-products'.

WHAT'S IN A BUSHEL OF CORN?

Each bushel of corn can produce up to 2.5 gallons of ethanol fuel.  Only the 
starch from the corn is used to make ethanol.  Most of the substance of the 
corn kernel remains, leaving the protein and valuable co-products to be used
in the production of food for people, livestock feed, and various chemicals.  
For example, that same bushel of corn (56 lbs.) used in ethanol manufacturing 
can also produce the following: 

The wet-milling process:

 

The dry-milling process:

31.5 pounds of starch

 

10 one-lb. boxes of cereal

or

 

and

33 lbs. of sweetner

 

15 lbs. of brewer grits
 (enough for 1 gal. of beer)

or

 

and

2.5 gal. fuel ethanol

 

10 eight oz. packages
of Cheese Curls

and

 

and

12.4 lbs. of 21% protein feed

 

1 lb. of pancake mix

and

 

and

3.0 lbs. of 60% gluten meal

 

22 lbs. of hominy feed
for livestock

and

 

and

1.5 lbs. of corn oil

 

0.7 lbs. of corn oil

and

 

and

17 lbs. of carbon dioxide

 

17 lbs. of carbon dioxide

The corn oil is used in producing food for human consumption.  For example, 
1.5 lbs of corn oil from a bushel of corn is equivalent to 2 lbs of margarine.  
The 21% protein feed is used in making high protein livestock feed.  The 
carbon dioxide is used as a refrigerant, in carbonated beverages, to help 
vegetable crops to grow more rapidly in greenhouses, and to flush oil wells.  
Only the starch of the corn (carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen) is used to make ethanol.  

21 posted on 01/22/2007 8:26:00 AM PST by Keith in Iowa (Liberals: First to demand tolerance, last to practice it when conservatives disagree with them.)
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