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Released May 12, 2016 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--As one of the first commercial-scale fuel ethanol plants to start up in California in 2010, Calgren Renewable Fuels LLC (Pixley, California) has been an industry leader in efficiency, diversity, innovation and is completely off the grid.
Back in 1910, the landscape of the Southern San Joaquin Valley changed forever when the Santa Fe Railroad started laying tracks in southwest Tulare County, springing up communities, agriculture and mining and logging industries. There was water and land.
Today, on an 80-acre site in Pixley serviced by Union Pacific Railroad, located some 50 miles north of Bakersfield, Calgren Renewable Fuels continues its energy independence with the production of corn-based fuel ethanol and advanced ethanol from sorghum grain amounting to 58 million gallons of the renewable fuel annually.
When the state-of-the-art plant was built, then-technology provider Lurgi PSI (Memphis, Tennessee) installed an Ultra-Low NOX gas turbine generator capable of producing 5.8 megawatts electricity as well as process steam, which results in a 20% to 25% reduction of steam consumption compared to the industry norm. It has smallest carbon footprints of any ethanol plant in the United States.
Today, the plant now produces fuel ethanol, 400,000 tons per year of distillers dried grains feed additive, 1.5 million gallons per year of corn oil, CO2 gas that is captured and processed at the site via an Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) plant and an anaerobic digester that processes cow manure into biogas to fire the plants boilers.
In 2014, Calgren expanded the cogen unit with the addition of a 5.6 megawatt gas-fired Solar Taurus 60 turbine and natural gas/biogas boiler with a 130,000 pound-per-hour heat recovery steam generator. The operation is basically a manure loop to ethanol utilizing both ends of the cow.
J.D. Heiskell & Company (Tulare, California), the country's fourth-largest animal feed manufacturing company in the US. and 114th ranked on Forbes list of America's Largest Private Companies, operates a feed mill next to the ethanol complex.
The plant now has a total generating capacity of over 11 megawatts of renewable energy generation. In February this year, Calgren reached a feed-in-tariff agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE) and in July will start delivering 5 MW of excess renewable energy to the SCE grid to reach its target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, five offices in North America and 10 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn. For more information on our coverage, send inquiries to info@industrialinfo.com or visit us online at http://www.industrialinfo.com/.
Back in 1910, the landscape of the Southern San Joaquin Valley changed forever when the Santa Fe Railroad started laying tracks in southwest Tulare County, springing up communities, agriculture and mining and logging industries. There was water and land.
Today, on an 80-acre site in Pixley serviced by Union Pacific Railroad, located some 50 miles north of Bakersfield, Calgren Renewable Fuels continues its energy independence with the production of corn-based fuel ethanol and advanced ethanol from sorghum grain amounting to 58 million gallons of the renewable fuel annually.
When the state-of-the-art plant was built, then-technology provider Lurgi PSI (Memphis, Tennessee) installed an Ultra-Low NOX gas turbine generator capable of producing 5.8 megawatts electricity as well as process steam, which results in a 20% to 25% reduction of steam consumption compared to the industry norm. It has smallest carbon footprints of any ethanol plant in the United States.
Today, the plant now produces fuel ethanol, 400,000 tons per year of distillers dried grains feed additive, 1.5 million gallons per year of corn oil, CO2 gas that is captured and processed at the site via an Air Liquide S.A. (Paris, France) plant and an anaerobic digester that processes cow manure into biogas to fire the plants boilers.
In 2014, Calgren expanded the cogen unit with the addition of a 5.6 megawatt gas-fired Solar Taurus 60 turbine and natural gas/biogas boiler with a 130,000 pound-per-hour heat recovery steam generator. The operation is basically a manure loop to ethanol utilizing both ends of the cow.
J.D. Heiskell & Company (Tulare, California), the country's fourth-largest animal feed manufacturing company in the US. and 114th ranked on Forbes list of America's Largest Private Companies, operates a feed mill next to the ethanol complex.
The plant now has a total generating capacity of over 11 megawatts of renewable energy generation. In February this year, Calgren reached a feed-in-tariff agreement with Southern California Edison (SCE) and in July will start delivering 5 MW of excess renewable energy to the SCE grid to reach its target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, five offices in North America and 10 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn. For more information on our coverage, send inquiries to info@industrialinfo.com or visit us online at http://www.industrialinfo.com/.
