Engineering process and cost model for a conventional corn wet milling facility

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-97

  Ramirez, Edna C ^a   Johnston, David B ^a   McAloon, Andrew J ^a   Yee, Winnie ^a   Singh, Vijay ^b  

^a EASTERN REGIONAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Coproducts; Corn; Economics; Process simulation; Technical Cost Model; Wet milling

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ETHANOL; FLOW RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS ENGINEERING; STARCH;

COPRODUCTS; GLUTEN SEPARATION; PROCESS SIMULATION; TECHNICAL COST MODEL; WET MILLING PROCESS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

AGRICULTURAL MODELING; EDUCATION; ENGINEERING; ESTIMATION METHOD; ETHANOL; MAIZE; MILLING; RESEARCH WORK; SIMULATION; STARCH;

ZEA MAYS;

ALCOHOL; COST; PLANT; PROCESS CONTROL; PURIFICATION; STARCH;

EID: 36448980928     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2007.08.002     Document Type: Article

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