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DOE Grant Advances Research
Into Corn Markets
I
ST. LOUIS, Mo. The Na
tional Corn Growers Associa
tion, Archer Daniels Midland
and the Department of Energy’s
Pacific Northwest National Lab
oratory will continue collaborat
ing to explore new markets-for
corn with a $2.4 million research
grant from DOE.
The award enables NCGA,
ADM and PNNL to extend their
research on corn fiber utilization
by two and a half years.
The highly skilled project
team is multidisciplinary, con
sisting of business managers, en
gineers, chemists and
biochemists from ADM, NCGA
and PNNL.
The aim of the research is to
convert corn fiber to higher
value products, thereby opening
new markets for corn growers.
Under the agreement, the part
ners intend to economically
derive high-value chemicals and
oils from lower value corn fiber.
In doing so, they plan to dem
onstrate a sizable leap in tech
nology. The project will
encompass purification and
characterization of trace
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amounts of chemicals to design
ing and constructing a pilot
plant capable of recovering
high-value carbohydrates at a
production level.
The project is valued at $4.86
million, half funded by DOE
and the remainder underwritten
by NCGA and ADM.
The NCGA has long sup
ported research targeting the in
creased utilization of corn fiber
as a way to increase the overall
value for corn.
The anticipated rise in
demand for ethanol will result in
an oversupply of feed bypro
ducts from corn processing
plants. According to Charles
Abbas, ADM’s project coordina
tor, “Processing of corn fiber
from corn wet-mills to higher
value products is essential to ex
panding corn wet-mills and to
maintaining profitability of our
industry. DOE’s support for this
project as a part of the U.S.
focus on biobased products from
renewables is indispensable to
the further expansion of corn
biorefineries.”
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