POET schedules public demo of corn cob harvesters

In Iowa, new and pre-commercial equipment for harvesting corn cobs for cellulosic ethanol will be demonstrated for the public on November 3 at Project LIBERTY Field Day in Emmetsburg. Corn cobs are the feedstock of choice for POET’s effort to commercialize cellulosic ethanol, known as Project LIBERTY.

The project will be a 25 million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant co-located with the current grain ethanol plant. The target date for startup is late 2011. POET’s pilot-scale plant in Scotland, S.D. is already producing cellulosic ethanol at a rate of approximately 20,000 gallons per year. According to POET, 14 farmers in the Emmetsburg area will run cob harvests this year with pre-commercial equipment.

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