Clean Burn Fuels Begins Dirt Work on North Carolina's First Ethanol Plant

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Sugar Land, Texas). Privately held Clean Burn Fuels LLC (Raleigh, North Carolina), has started preliminary dirt work and site preparation on what will be the first commercial scale ethanol plant located in the State of North Carolina. The plant, located about 100 miles east of Charlotte in the small town of Dundarrach, will be a dry mill plant with the capacity of producing 55 million gallons of ethanol annually. Some 20 million bushels of corn will be processed annually and liquid CO2 will be produced as a by-product, as well as distillers dried grains.

The plant will utilize Katzen International (Cincinnati, Ohio) licensed ethanol process technology and Diversified Piping Systems (Greer, South Carolina) is acting as the general contractor.

Clean Burn expects dirt work to continue for the next couple of months and concrete pouring should begin in April ’08. Construction is expected to take sixteen months to complete and the plant will be ready for start-up mid 2009.

Construction costs to build the plant are in the $100 million range.

Currently, Clean Burn is the only ethanol project in North Carolina to get this far in development. Additional plants are expected to be built in Jamesville, Aurora, Saint Pauls, Benson and Spring Hope. Projects in Hubert, Snow Hill and Fayetteville have been put on-hold or cancelled.

Industrial Info's Ethanol Production Database provides a comprehensive outline of all current development activities in the emerging synthetic fuels market. This database covers 135 ethanol plants currently in operation and 290 plants under development. It also covers thirty-two operational biodiesel plants and 75 biodiesel plants under development.

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