FEECO International Featured in Process Heating Magazine
FEECO International, Inc. is featured in June's Process Heating Magazine. The article entitled "Ethanol Plant Know-How" explains the use of rotary dryers to dry and cool ethanol plant co-products.
/Wisconsin News Articles/ - GREEN BAY, WI, July 04, 2008 - FEECO International, Inc. is featured in the June issue of Process Heating Magazine. The article entitled "Ethanol Plant Know-How" explains the use of rotary dryers to cool and dry ethanol plant co-products by FEECO's Shane LeCapitaine.
Here are a couple short excerpts from the article:
"Ethanol producers are under constant pressure to improve performance as the price of feedstocks and energy continues to increase. Traditional corn-based ethanol plants use fermentation to produce ethanol and carbon dioxide (CO2) from ground corn, which results in the production of unfermented residuals (the parts of the kernel that are not converted to ethanol and CO2).
Unfermented residuals usually are separated into two streams, consisting of wet cake (distillers grain) and syrup (soluble), by means of a centrifuge. The syrup is concentrated in multi-effect evaporators to approximately 35 percent solids and combined with the wet cake. The wet cake is dried to produce dried distillers grain (DDG), or dried in combination with the syrup to produce dried distillers grain with solubles (DDGS).
The workhorses for many industrial applications, direct-fired rotary dryers and rotary coolers have been around for more than 100 years. When designed properly, these heavy-duty units typically can run continuously for more than 30 years while requiring minimal maintenance.
A typical rotary dryer/cooler system for DDGS consists of the following major components: mixer, dryer with air system, dry recycle system, and cooler with air system."
To read more on this article please visit FEECO's website or the Process Heating online magazine.
Further Related Resources:
Press Release Contact Information:
Steph Balza
FEECO International, Inc
Web Designer
3913 Algoma Rd
Green Bay, WI
USA 54311
Voice: 920.468.1000
Fax: 920.469-5110
Website: Visit Our Website
