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Finding Co-Products in Cellulosic Ethanol Production

The Farm Foundation just concluded a conference in their series titled, “Transition To A Bio Economy.” This one was on risk, infrastructure and industry evolution and all the presentations were on biofuels. I conducted a series of interviews with the presenters which you can find with this link.

There were a lot of interesting topics like this one on co-products with cellulosic ethanol production. We hear more about co-products with corn ethanol but apparently there are some promising new options with cellulosic. Danielle Julie Carrier, Arkansas State University is doing work on that subject.

She’s working with switchgrass and they’ve found that if you wash the feedstock prior to the pre-treatment for ethanol production that you get a water mix with flavonoids which help reduce bad cholesterol. Co-products like this have potential and may help make the production of cellulosic ethanol more attractive.

You can listen to my interview with Julie here: