NDSU professor, partners haul in $780,000 from biomass, energy beet R&D grants

Biofuels Digest
May 04, 2010 Jim Lane

A partnership between NDSU, Green Vision Group and Heartland Renewable has received $330,000 of grant funding from North Dakota’s Renewable Energy Council and several private supporters to develop an energy beet to biofuel industry in the state. Cole Gustafson was lead author of the proposal. Tasks envisioned by the funding include a commercial test of HRE’s patented process of drying the plant’s fermentation stillage and utilizing the material to heat 70 percent of the plant, and energy beet yield trials at five regional locations across North Dakota.

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