Evaluation of a dry corn fractionation process for ethanol production with different hybrids

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-72

  Murthy, Ganti S ^a   Sall, Erik D ^b   Metz, Sally G ^b   Foster, G ^c   Singh, Vijay ^a  

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

^b MONSANTO COMPANY   (United States)

^c FWS Technologies   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coproducts; Corn fractionation processes; Ethanol; Fermentation; Grits

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); CURING; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); MILLING (MACHINING);

COPRODUCTS; CORN FRACTIONATION PROCESSES; CORN HYBRIDS; DRY GRIND PROCESSING; DRY GRINDS; DRY MILLINGS; ETHANOL CONCENTRATIONS; ETHANOL PRODUCTIONS; FRACTIONATION PROCESSES; GLUCOSE CONCENTRATIONS; GRITS; WHOLE CORNS;

ETHANOL;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; FRACTIONATION; HYBRID; MAIZE;

ZEA MAYS;

CONCENTRATION; CROP PRODUCTION; MILLING; SEPARATION;

EID: 56649114439     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2008.04.006     Document Type: Article

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