United States: Modular plant offers new direction for ethanol production.Byline: kusumv03 That's the question That's the Question is an American quiz game show on GSN, hosted by game show veteran and former Entertainment Tonight reporter, Bob Goen, which premiered in October 2006. that entrepreneur, developer and business owner Mark Gaalswyk asked. Gaalswyk is now president of Easy Energy Systems, makers of the Modular Ethanol Production System (MEPS MEPS Medical Expenditure Panel Survey MEPS Military Entrance Processing Station MEPS Minimum Energy Performance Standards (Australia & New Zealand) MEPS Malaysian Electronic Payment System MEPS Military Enlistment Processing Station ). Easy Energy Systems is a spin-off of Easy Automation, Inc., a leader in feed automation equipment and software in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . The two companies employ about 65 people in Welcome in south central Minnesota Central Minnesota is the name of the region consisting of the central portion of the state of Minnesota. Although no specific boundaries of the region exist, most definitions of what makes up the region would generally consist of the vast swath of land north of Interstate 94, east , and Emmetsburg, Iowa Emmetsburg is a city in Palo Alto County, Iowa, United States. The population was 3,958 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Palo Alto CountyGR6. Emmetsburg is home to a campus of Iowa Lakes Community College. , about 50 miles south of Welcome. Company leaders relied on their feed equipment knowledge to design and build MEPS. A lot of the technology used in automating feed mills and different industrial equipment is very similar to what is used in the ethanol industry, said Jayden Grupe, Easy Energy Systems operations manager See datacenter manager. . The Mobile Ethanol Production System has garnered attention. In early August, U.S. Congressman Tim Walz Timothy J. Walz (born April 6, 1964) is an American politician. A member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL), Walz is the U.S. Representative for Minnesota's 1st congressional district, one of eight congressional districts in Minnesota. , D-Minn., asked Easy Energy Systems to set up the MEPS in Rochester, almost 130 miles east of Welcome. The system was demonstrated to U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu. Chu commented about his visit on his Facebook page on Aug. 4, saying that he traveled to Rochester, Minn., to meet some people on the cutting edge of the clean energy economy. In October, Gaalswyk was invited to the White House to discuss MEPS and Easy Energy Systems. He also participated in a panel on renewable energy development Renewable energy development covers the advancement, capacity growth, and use of renewable energy sources. Modern interest in renewable energy development is linked to concerns about exhaustion of fossil fuels and environmental, social and political risks of extensive use of fossil in the United States. There has also been interest in MEPS from abroad. This is ready to be ordered by India, the Philippines and China, to drop into their rural villages, and use rice shavings and tapioca to create ethanol to power their vehicles in a renewable way, said Congressman Walz. That's the future of America - exporting our technology, our innovation and re-powering through the things that we do. There are reasons for us to be optimistic. The Easy Energy Systems Modular Ethanol Production System can be sized from 500,000 gallons up to 1, 2 or 5 million gallon capacities. Any of these can be plugged together to make any size system you would like, said Grupe. Because we are modularized mod·u·lar·ized adj. Having or made up of modules: modularized housing. and built in a factory, we have lower construction costs than what a typical ethanol plant would have. A 500,000-gallon system is considered a pilot plant, while a 1 million-gallon plant would fit in a building 30 feet by 150 feet. Two 1 million-gallon MEPS can be placed next to each other and fit in a building 60 feet by 150 feet. The ethanol feedstock is fed into the plant where it is ground into small particles. The particles are then cooked to kill bacteria. Enzymes and chemicals are added based on the type of feedstock. The feedstock is cooled down to a temperature where yeast is added and then the mixture goes to fermenting tanks. A computer system determines the correct fermentation time. Next, the material enters a distillation system that separates components into a distilled product and 185-190 proof alcohol. The alcohol is then dried to 200 proof alcohol for use as ethanol. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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