E-Fuel, Sierra Nevada Brewing to make ethanol
February 4, 2009
BY Susanne Retka Schill
Web exclusive posted Feb. 6, 2009, at 10:13 a.m. CST
E-Fuel Corp. and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. are joining forces to make ethanol at a Chico, Calif., brewery using the Efuel 100 MicroFuelers. The partners announced Feb. 3 that they had reached an agreement to place the Efuel 100 MicroFuelers at the brewery enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture ethanol using waste from its brewing process. Testing will begin in the second quarter of 2009, with a goal of achieving full-scale ethanol production in the third quarter of 2009.
Currently, most of the brewery's waste is transported daily by trucks and used as dairy feed. On average, Sierra Nevada resells 1.6 million gallons of unusable "bottom of the barrel" beer yeast waste to farmers each year. Containing 5 to 8 percent alcohol content, the waste includes enough yeast and nutrients to enable the MicroFueler to raise that level to 15 percent alcohol. The MicroFueler will remove water from the waste to produce a high quality ethanol product.
"Creating ethanol from discarded organic waste is an excellent example of how the MicroFueler can help eliminate our reliance on the oil industry infrastructure, " said Tom Quinn, E-Fuel founder and chief executive officer. "This is especially true when considering Americans reportedly discard 50 percent of all agricultural farmed products. Using a waste product to fuel your car is friendlier to the environment and lighter on your wallet, easily beating prices at the gas pump."
"We are excited to partner with E-Fuel to develop an efficient way to recover waste ethanol from our spent yeast," said Ken Grossman, founder and president of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. "This has the potential to be a great thing for the environment and further our commitment to be becoming more energy independent."
The EFuel100 MicroFueler is a portable ethanol micro-refinery system. The household appliance-sized unit is aimed at home consumers using sugar or restaurants and taverns using discarded alcoholic drinks to cost-effectively create their own fuel, on-site. The unit uses a standard household power supply, converting yeast, water and a sugar source to ethanol in the MicroFueler's patented micro-controlled fermentation process and membrane distillation system. After undergoing several design changes since the launch in May of 2008, the company said manufacturing is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2009. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.efuel100.com.
E-Fuel Corp. and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. are joining forces to make ethanol at a Chico, Calif., brewery using the Efuel 100 MicroFuelers. The partners announced Feb. 3 that they had reached an agreement to place the Efuel 100 MicroFuelers at the brewery enabling Sierra Nevada to manufacture ethanol using waste from its brewing process. Testing will begin in the second quarter of 2009, with a goal of achieving full-scale ethanol production in the third quarter of 2009.
Currently, most of the brewery's waste is transported daily by trucks and used as dairy feed. On average, Sierra Nevada resells 1.6 million gallons of unusable "bottom of the barrel" beer yeast waste to farmers each year. Containing 5 to 8 percent alcohol content, the waste includes enough yeast and nutrients to enable the MicroFueler to raise that level to 15 percent alcohol. The MicroFueler will remove water from the waste to produce a high quality ethanol product.
"Creating ethanol from discarded organic waste is an excellent example of how the MicroFueler can help eliminate our reliance on the oil industry infrastructure, " said Tom Quinn, E-Fuel founder and chief executive officer. "This is especially true when considering Americans reportedly discard 50 percent of all agricultural farmed products. Using a waste product to fuel your car is friendlier to the environment and lighter on your wallet, easily beating prices at the gas pump."
"We are excited to partner with E-Fuel to develop an efficient way to recover waste ethanol from our spent yeast," said Ken Grossman, founder and president of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. "This has the potential to be a great thing for the environment and further our commitment to be becoming more energy independent."
The EFuel100 MicroFueler is a portable ethanol micro-refinery system. The household appliance-sized unit is aimed at home consumers using sugar or restaurants and taverns using discarded alcoholic drinks to cost-effectively create their own fuel, on-site. The unit uses a standard household power supply, converting yeast, water and a sugar source to ethanol in the MicroFueler's patented micro-controlled fermentation process and membrane distillation system. After undergoing several design changes since the launch in May of 2008, the company said manufacturing is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2009. For more information visit the company's Web site at www.efuel100.com.
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