FQPT installs new SGT technology at CHS ethanol facility

In Illinois, Fluid Quip Process Technologies (FQPT) has completed the installation and startup of its patented Selective Grind Technology (SGT™) at the 150 million gallon per year CHS ethanol facility located in Rochelle, IL.

“Adding the SGT™ system to an ethanol plant not only increases yields but enables these plants to switch to more cost-effective enzymes. This leads to lower overall operating costs and higher revenue, resulting in a more profitable ethanol facility,” said Neal Jakel, V.P. Strategy and Development, FQPT.

Jakel continued, “Our SGT™ technology continues to prove out nearly 2x the ethanol and oil yield gain over any other comparable technology in the ethanol space.  We have developed a grind simulation test in which a plant can see what the results could look like before they commit to an SGT™ project. We utilize these results to determine the process guarantees, so a plant will know what their guaranteed ROI will be before they begin.”

The SGT™ System is installed in the mash cook process to expose more starch for conversion to ethanol and to shear open the germ to release more corn oil. The SGT™ system reduces starch in DDGS which reduces dryer loading and increases DDGS Pro-Fat levels. FQPT provides customized systems based on plant size and objectives. These include various screen and mill sizes and custom flow setups to achieve industry-leading yields. The FQPT SGT™ grind mills are exclusively installed with an auto-gap adjuster technology that ensures optimize milling performance automatically.