Tour to Adkins Energy
Ethanol Plant and
Acciona Energy Wind Farm near
Lena, IL by
Northwestern Energy Technology Group (NETG)
on Monday, April 12, 2010
A huge square container for damp protein part of corn which is not used for ethanol, but for animal food
Conveyor is continously discharging more damp protein animal food
Get an idea of the size of these ethanol towers from the train on the left
Dry protein animal food that is shipped far away (see 5 photos below)
The bottom of one of the many semi trucks unloading its corn
The raw corn is lifted from the conveyor below the trucks to the top of one of the huge processing towers
Huge stacks indoors of the dry
protein animal food. A lot of it is shipped overseas to China.
The damp protein (top of page) is dried a second time by centrifuge
Huge tanks for ethanol. It is loaded
via the black pipe either to rail tank cars or to tank trucks. Before it goes
out,
it is "poisoned" just a little with gasoline to both (a) avoid alchohol
taxes, and (b) keep any extremely
ambitous alchololic people from drinking it.