Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center receives $3.5 million gift

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Posted: Tuesday, November 8, 2011 9:00 am Updated: 3:17 pm, Tue Nov 8, 2011.

SIUE’s Corn-to-Ethanol Research Center added a corn fractionation system to its distinctive facility Friday at a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

The system, donated by Cereal Process Technologies, is designed to make more use of a single kernel of corn.

Larry Hasheider, Illinois Corn Marketing Board director for district 14, said about five billion bushels of corn are used for ethanol production and about one-third of that is returned to livestock. With the new fractionation system, Hasheider said an additional 2 billion gallons of ethanol can be produced by removing the outside edge of corn kernels.

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