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Biomass-to-energy is a concept that has been around from
time immemorial. The use of biomass for transportation purposes
really began in earnest when the railroads first opened the
West, with trains burning wood as their primary fuel. Soon
this was replaced with a fossil hydrocarbon (coal) that was much
easier to mine and transport. Coal was then replaced by other
hydrocarbons, gasoline and diesel. Another phase of displacement,
with bio-fuels supplementing the combustion of fossil hydrocarbons,
is well on its way to becoming a fact of life. Ethanol will
be the “oxygenator” for unleaded gasoline creating
much cleaner burning combustion and fewer tailpipe emissions.
Today Brazil leads the world’s industrialized nations
in production of ethanol fuel.
Pan Gen Global is a British Corporation with a regional office in California. Our first facilities will be located in the heart of the Sacramento Valley’s rice producing area and Arkansas. California produces about 18% of the rice grown in the United States; about 550,000 acres annually. Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Missouri also produce large quantities of rice. In California an acre yields approximately 8000 pounds of rice, 5000 pounds of waste rice straw and 1000 pounds of waste rice hulls.
Pan Gen Global will produce ethanol,
silica/sodium oxide and lignin from waste rice straw,
waste rice hulls and other cellulosics. Our facility
will consume approximately 130,000 tons of waste biomass
annually, producing 12.5 million gallons of ethanol and
16,800 tons of silica/sodium oxide.
Ethanol sells as a commodity priced (as of June '06) at $3.36 per
gallon. California imports approximately 950,000,000 gallons
annually. Silica/sodium oxide is a widely used ingredient
with applications in the paper industry, by detergent and soap producers and for the production
of gels , catalysts and zeolytes.
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