POET installs new equipment at Laddonia facility, has high hopes
In Missouri, POET announced the installation of new equipment at its Laddonia facility to make its ethanol production process even greener. The biorefining plant currently produces 12 mega watts of electricity every hour, and its BTUs are used twice– once to generate electricity, and once to generate steam to run the distillation. The new equipment has a quick return on investment and supplies environmentally-friendly electricity in a very economical way.
The plant includes four different methods to ensure environmental benefits, including combined heat and power, total water recovery, the use of variable speed pumps for fermentation, and tree planting. For every 10 million gallons of ethanol produced, POET plants a new tree, which includes 25 trees to date.
Category: Fuels
