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Work to start on rice hulls-to-fuel plant in Arkansas
Associated Press - August 7, 2008 1:34 PM ET STUTTGART, Ark. (AP) - Work is to begin later this month on an $80 million plant in Stuttgart [Arkansas county Arkansas has over 100k acres of rice under cultivation] that is to convert rice products to ethanol. The plant [the full size one]is to employ about 200 people [probably this includes a lot of testing and QC types who will be part time and work on mainline Rice ops mostly]. The plant will use rice hulls and rice straws to produce ethanol and commercial silica. Colusa Biomass CEO Tom Bowers says a smaller version of the plant will be built over the coming four months. The company will use the smaller plant to fine tune the production process, then build the full-scale plant, which is to be in production by late 2009. Construction of the full-scale plant is to begin in December. The full-scale plant is designed to produce 12.5 million gallons of fuel ethanol and 152,000 tons of silica/sodium oxide [stuff used in glass and cement manufacture] annually. Posted by: mhw 2008-08-12 |
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