NCERC Exploring New Uses for Corn
by Rhiannon Branch (Brownfield Ag News) The director of the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center says they have some big research projects in the works paving the way to new uses for US corn.
John Caupert tell Brownfield they are finding more and more products can be made from corn ethanol instead of petroleum.
“The latest would be in polymers. Polymers can range from a plastic bottle that contains drinking water, to carpet fibers, all the way to possibly the fibers that are in clothing.”
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“We are taking corn, we are running it through a conventional or a modified corn to ethanol process, then heighten the level of digestible protein in the ethanol co-product which then makes for a very high value, high protein to be utilized in aquaculture diets.” READ MORE
New Uses for Ethanol Offer New Opportunities (Energy.AgWired.com; includes AUDIO)