POET Announces That Cellulosic Ethanol Pilot Facility Will Be Operational This Year

Production of cellulosic booze in Scotland, S.D. to alpha in Q4 '08.

Sioux Falls, S.D. (Vocus/PRWEB ) August 13, 2008 -- At the American Coalition for Ethanol conference, POET appear that architecture will be completed on a $4 actor pilot-scale cellulosic booze assembly ability after this year. The pilot bulb will be abutting to POET's blah booze pilot ability and a nine actor gallon per year (MGPY) booze assembly ability in Scotland, S.D. It will acquiesce POET to body aloft contempo technology advances afore starting architecture on Project LIBERTY, their bartering cellulosic assembly facility, next year.

"Our broadcast analysis accomplishment has led to several cogent strides in the development of cellulosic booze technology at the lab calibration in contempo months," said Jeff Broin, CEO of POET. "Construction of this pilot ability will acquiesce our aggregation to crop the next footfall against the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol."

Our broadcast analysis accomplishment has led to several cogent strides in the development of cellulosic booze technology at the lab calibration in contempo months Construction of this pilot ability will acquiesce our aggregation to crop the next footfall against the commercialization of cellulosic ethanol. In the accomplished few months, our scientists accept been able to accomplish cogent booze percentages in beverage and advance the crop of booze from biomass. Additionally, in our plan with farmers and agronomical accessories manufacturers, we had a actual acknowledged autumn of blah cobs endure abatement and ahead added advances during an broadcast autumn this fall. Broin aswell said that he is added assured about the approaching of cellulosic booze than anytime before. "In the accomplished few months, our scientists accept been able to accomplish cogent booze percentages in beverage and advance the crop of booze from biomass. Additionally, in our plan with farmers and agronomical accessories manufacturers, we had a actual acknowledged autumn of blah cobs endure abatement and ahead added advances during an broadcast autumn this fall."

During the 2007 harvest, POET formed with above agronomical accessories manufacturers to autumn 4,000 acreage of blah atom and cobs from a farmer's acreage in Southeastern South Dakota. Cobs from this fall's autumn and endure will serve as the feedstock for the cellulosic pilot plant, alternating with blah cilia extracted from the abutting blah booze assembly ability with POET's proprietary fractionation process, BFRAC™.

POET has been alive on cellulosic booze technology for added than eight years and has decidedly broadcast their analysis and development efforts. The aggregation afresh completed an amplification of their analysis lab in Sioux Falls, S.D. that tripled its size. In the accomplished year, they accept angled the amount of advisers on agents and will absorb alert as abundant on R&D this year as they did just two years ago.

Project LIBERTY, the transformation of a 50 MGPY grain-to-ethanol bulb in Emmetsburg, Iowa into an chip corn-to-ethanol and cellulose-to-ethanol biorefinery, is accordingly adjourned by POET and the United States Department of Energy (DOE). Once complete, the ability will aftermath 125 MGPY, of which 25 actor gallons will be from blah cilia and blah cobs. By abacus cellulosic assembly to an absolute atom booze plant, POET will be able to aftermath 11 percent added booze from a bassinet of corn, 27 percent added from an acre of corn, while abbreviation deposit ammunition burning and baptize use.

POET is in the aboriginal appearance of the acceding with the DOE, which governs all aspects of the activity arch up to construction. Project LIBERTY is accepted to alpha architecture in 2009 and be operational in backward 2011. The pilot ability is alfresco of the affiliation with the DOE and all architecture costs will be incurred by POET.

About POET
POET, the better booze ambassador in the apple according to the Renewable Fuels Association, is an accustomed baton in the biorefining industry through activity development, architecture and construction, analysis and development, bulb management, and marketing. The 20-year old aggregation currently operates 23 assembly accessories in the United States with three added beneath construction. The aggregation produces and markets added than 1.3 billion gallons of booze annually. For added information, go to http://www.poet.com.