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Product Review The ProSonix jet cooker provides ethanol producers with a tool to cook corn slurry at a low pressure, thereby potentially reducing energy costs. “You also get reduced wear and more uniform wear, which allows for longer life for the components,” said Bruce Cincotta, ProSonix general manager of engineering. “In a typical ethanol plant, you slurry up the starch and water, then send it through the jet cooker for primary liquefaction of the starch,” Cincotta explained. “The front end of our process is right after the mix of corn and water together. We heat up to hydrolyze the starch, beginning the conversion of the starch to sugar.” He said the ProSonix jet cooker can save at least 10% in energy costs. “That’s going to vary depending on the size of the unit,” he added. The reason for the energy savings and smooth wear, said Cincotta, is the unit’s rotating, adjusting condensing tube. “The tube is better aligned with the stem injection allowing the cooker to run with lower pressure drops; and the tube adjustment is rotary, causing the wear to tend to even out,” Cincotta said. ProSonix was founded in 2006 and has been marketing to the ethanol industry since its inception. The global company, based in Milwaukee, WI, also works in the mining, pulp and paper, chemical, and other process industries. Features Jet Cooker ProSonix 800-849-1130 Milwaukee, WI www.pro-sonix.com Features of the ProSonix jet cooker include: • Internal components customized for the specific application. • Different alloys that can be utilized in a single unit. Units can be constructed of stainless steel, carbon steel, other materials or any combination required to keep costs down. • Tube adjustment available in manual or automated versions. The automated version uses simple plant controls—no proprietary black box. Response No. 1021 Service Review S.K. Patil & Associates is poised to help ethanol producers move from being primarily fuel plants to becoming both food and fuel processors. “Adding value to co-products is one of the key areas the ethanol industry is working on right now,” said S.K. Patil President Sakharam Patil. He said his consulting company will help ethanol producers convert their existing plants to create additional coproducts like corn oil and proteins utilizing technologies like fractionation. “In the co-products area, I do understand all the fractions of corn,” Patil said. “I worked for 28 years in the corn industry.” He said an ethanol producer, for example, could extract zein protein from the front end of an ethanol plant, providing a high-value co-product. “Zein is sold for $10 a pound,” Patil said. “That’s like gold for the ethanol producer.” The company, based in Munster, IN, was formed in 2002 by Patil and other engineers from the food processing industry. Patil himself worked at Cargill, Bunge, and Kellogg’s. His firm has also worked for ethanol producers utilizing such feedstocks as sweet sorghum. Services S.K. Patil & Associates 219-922-1033 Munster, IN skpatil-associates.com 102 BFJ | JAN/FEB 09 S.K. Patil and Associates offers the following services: • Commercial development of food, industrial, and biotechnology products. • Technology transfer and business development. • Food ingredient technology for such products as proteins, dietary fibers, and starches. • Market analysis for strategic identification of market needs, opportunities, and trends. Response No. 1022 http://www.pro-sonix.com http://www.pro-sonix.com http://www.skpatil-associates.com http://www.skpatil-associates.com

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Biofuels Journal - January/February 2009 Contents Safety Training Expanding Safety Pays Top 2008 OSHA Citations Ethanol Terminal Safety Preventing Falls Fighting Ethanol Fires Biodiesel Safety Bridgeport Ethanol John Kruse, Global Insight Barley Ethanol New DDGS Market—Fish Mary Beth Stanek, General Motors RINs As Commodity POET BioRefining Ethanol Pipeline—Florida DDGS Causing E. coli Community College Biofuels Ethanol Plants in the Pipeline State Report: Ohio Ethanol World Profile: Adam Dunlap, BlueFire Ethanol When to Harvest Switchgrass, Miscanthus Indirect Land Use Change Profile: Greg Olson, POET-Corning Growth Energy Monthly Ethanol Production Case Study: Fuelzyme Ethanol Industry News Greg Poe, Ethanol Pilot Sponsored by Fagen Inc. Blackhawk Biodiesel Biodiesel Roundup Biodiesel World Peanut Biodiesel Pennycress Biodiesel Radish Biodiesel Profile: Joe Korpi, Renewable Energy Group Biodiesel Convention NBB Eye on Biodiesel Awards Calendar of Events Cellulosic Ethanol Plants Under Construction Cellulosic Ethanol Plants Construction Map Breaking Cellulosic Ground Show Me’s Collecting Biomass Inland Empire Oilseeds POET’s Project Liberty Update Vermeer’s Cob Harvester Iowa State Cob Harvest Research Europe’s Energy Parks Imported Deere Cob Harvest Kit/Case IH Coskata Sugar/Mascoma Update Range Fuels Update Tom Warne, Schutte-Buffalo Hammermill University of Illinois Biofuels Master’s Roger Ladig, Laidig Systems, Inc. Miscanthus vs. Switchgrass Biofuels Automation Scott Martin, LeMar Industries Biodiesel Financing EISENMANN Corp. GATX / Beta Tec ProSonics / S.K. Patil DOE Grant Action Unloaders Ad Index

Biofuels Journal - January/February 2009

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