Techno-economic modeling of a corn based ethanol plant in 2011

American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting 2012, ASABE 2012

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages 1812-1846

  Wood, Christine ^a   Aubert, Pierre ^b   Rosentrater, Kurt A ^c   Muthukumarappan, Kasiviswanathan ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b French National School of Agricultural and Engineering   (France)

^c Iowa State University of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Corn; DDGS; Dry grind; DWG; Economics; Ethanol; Oil

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ETHANOL; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); VEGETABLE OILS;

CORN; DDGS; DRY-GRIND; DWG; OIL;

DRYING;

EID: 84871759832     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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