Green light for Green Plains’ algae project
Omaha, US-based Green Plains Renewable Energy has won a €1.6 million state grant for a pilot project to produce algae from by-products of its Shenandoah, Iowa, ethanol plant.
Pending the success of the pilot project, Green Plains intends to develop a commercial plant producing algae for biofuels.
The high-protein algae could be added to the dried distillers grains produced by ethanol plants for livestock feed.
The algae would be grown using the carbon dioxide, wastewater and heat produced by the Shenandoah plant.
The test plant is slated to be complete by July 2009.
Pending the success of the pilot project, Green Plains intends to develop a commercial plant producing algae for biofuels.
The high-protein algae could be added to the dried distillers grains produced by ethanol plants for livestock feed.
The algae would be grown using the carbon dioxide, wastewater and heat produced by the Shenandoah plant.
The test plant is slated to be complete by July 2009.
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