Amaizing Energy to use SMAART system
August 4, 2008
BY Timothy Charles Holmseth
Web exclusive posted August 13, 2008 at 3:16 p.m. CST
Amaizing Energy Holding Company LLC, based in Denison, Iowa, will soon be extracting corn oil using the Primafuels Solutions SMAART system at its 55 MMgy dry-mill corn processing ethanol facility in Denison, Iowa.
Under the contract, Basehor, Kan.-based Primafuel Solutions will act as the engineering, procurement and construction provider. Executive Vice President and Primafuel Co-Founder Rahul Iyer describes the SMAART Oil system as a fully-integrated skid mounted corn oil extraction unit that can extract more food and fuel from the same bushel of corn.
The farmer-led ethanol production company will use a smaller-scale QuickSMAART unit until installation of the full unit is completed in November.
"They also future-proofed the system," said Al Jentz, president of Amaizing Energy. He said the arrangement allows for the ethanol facility to have access to future system process improvements.
"Once the system is built and operational, Amaizing Energy will own 100 percent of the oil," Jentz said, adding there is no short or long-term off-take contract. "This was important to our management board," he said, noting the industry is always evolving and they want to remain flexible in the markets.
Jentz said they were attracted to the SMAART System because it guaranteed the most corn oil - and would also be of a higher quality. "As Amaizing Energy takes prudent steps toward becoming more of a bio-refinery, we saw Primafuel Solutions' SMAART Oil system as a near-term, cost-effective first step in moving our business in that direction," he said.
"The first and most immediate benefit is the new revenue stream. That is priority number one," Jentz said, adding that the technology partnership developing between the two companies will be an asset in time to come for a variety of reasons. "Many of [Primafuels'] technologies are built around their SMAART Oil system. It gives Amaizing Energy a near-term pathway toward further product and revenue diversification," he said.
"We were confident our staff could have installed a similar system, but ultimately it would have lacked the same level of system performance guarantees," he said.
Amaizing Energy also plans to build a 110 MMgy dry-mill corn processing ethanol plant in Atlantic, Iowa.
Amaizing Energy Holding Company LLC, based in Denison, Iowa, will soon be extracting corn oil using the Primafuels Solutions SMAART system at its 55 MMgy dry-mill corn processing ethanol facility in Denison, Iowa.
Under the contract, Basehor, Kan.-based Primafuel Solutions will act as the engineering, procurement and construction provider. Executive Vice President and Primafuel Co-Founder Rahul Iyer describes the SMAART Oil system as a fully-integrated skid mounted corn oil extraction unit that can extract more food and fuel from the same bushel of corn.
The farmer-led ethanol production company will use a smaller-scale QuickSMAART unit until installation of the full unit is completed in November.
"They also future-proofed the system," said Al Jentz, president of Amaizing Energy. He said the arrangement allows for the ethanol facility to have access to future system process improvements.
"Once the system is built and operational, Amaizing Energy will own 100 percent of the oil," Jentz said, adding there is no short or long-term off-take contract. "This was important to our management board," he said, noting the industry is always evolving and they want to remain flexible in the markets.
Jentz said they were attracted to the SMAART System because it guaranteed the most corn oil - and would also be of a higher quality. "As Amaizing Energy takes prudent steps toward becoming more of a bio-refinery, we saw Primafuel Solutions' SMAART Oil system as a near-term, cost-effective first step in moving our business in that direction," he said.
"The first and most immediate benefit is the new revenue stream. That is priority number one," Jentz said, adding that the technology partnership developing between the two companies will be an asset in time to come for a variety of reasons. "Many of [Primafuels'] technologies are built around their SMAART Oil system. It gives Amaizing Energy a near-term pathway toward further product and revenue diversification," he said.
"We were confident our staff could have installed a similar system, but ultimately it would have lacked the same level of system performance guarantees," he said.
Amaizing Energy also plans to build a 110 MMgy dry-mill corn processing ethanol plant in Atlantic, Iowa.
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