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Aventine installs $4.4m corn oil system at ethanol plant

Aventine Renewable Energy has installed its third Valicor corn oil separation system.

The new $4.4 million (€4 million) 'plug and play' modular system is now operating at the Aurora West 110 million gallons per year Delta T plant in Aurora, Nebraska.

'By adapting new technologies to the dry-milling process, we're able to extract and market higher value co-products, which allow us to expand our revenue stream, continue to add shareholder value, and diversify beyond ethanol production in Nebraska,' says Mark Beemer, Aventine president and CEO. 'After passage of the Renewable Fuels Standards and the Energy Security Act in 2007, the ethanol industry was able to expand because of the lower capital expenditure of using dry-milling technology compared to the wet-milling industry.'

Since corn oil has a higher market value, removing the oil improves dried distillers grain processing properties. The industrial-grade by-product from the two Aurora plants will be used primarily for biodiesel or as an additive to livestock feed for higher caloric diets. Aurora West can produce 10,000 gallons of corn oil a day.

Last summer Aventine ordered a $2.4 million corn oil separation system for its Nebraska Energy plant in Aurora, which began operations in early January. It can produce 4,500 gallons of corn oil a day.

The company previously installed a Valicor system at its Pekin, Illinois, dry mill, which has been in operation since late 2013. Aventine also operates a 100 million gallon wet mill in Pekin.





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