Cargill Joint Venture to Install FQPT Systems in Brazilian Plant
(Fluid Quip Process Technologies/Ethanol Producer Magazine) SJC Bioenergia, a joint venture between Cargill and Group USJ, has purchased Fluid Quip Process Technology’s systems to integrate corn ethanol production at its sugar-cane ethanol facility located in Quirinopolis, Brazil.
SJC Bioenergia will utilize FQPT’s SGT milling, BOS front-end corn oil, Fiber Separation, and MSC Protein Recovery technologies. The combined patented and patent-pending systems produces a corn based starch slurry stream which gives high yields of ethanol and coproducts while allowing the sugar cane mill to utilize existing fermentation, distillation, and evaporation.
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The SJC system will be the first colocation (cane and corn) to remove corn fiber before fermentation making the switch over from cane to corn seamless throughout the crop year.
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The FQPT system allows a facility to blend a corn starch feedstock into the plant while running sugar cane, thus allowing the plant operating capacity to be maximized year-round with the added benefit of the coproduct revenue streams which are significant,’ adds Kwik (John Kwik, president of FQPT). READ MORE