Red River Biorefinery Gearing up for Production
by Matt Thompson (Ethanol Producer Magazine) According to Keshav Rajpal, BioMass Solution principal, the industry’s newest ethanol plant – Red River Biorefinery – is still on track to start operations at the beginning of the year. The plant, developed by BioMass Solution, is located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and uses feedstocks uncommon in the U.S. ethanol industry: sugar beet tailings and potato processing waste. “We’re not using any purpose-grown crops for this,” Rajpal said. “There’s nothing there’s nothing wrong with that, it’s just our model is different.” Rajpal said the plant can also process waste from pasta manufacturing, but that feedstock is a minimal part of the mix.
Rajpal said the 16.5 MMgy plant is set to begin receiving feedstock this week.
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The plant is designed to generate D3 and D5 renewable identification numbers (RINS) and sell its product into the California market to take advantage of the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard.
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The waste generated by the facility is used for animal feed. READ MORE