Products, animal feed, carbon dioxide.
Bioethanol
Ethanol has several areas of use. What we normally relate to is for drinking. Industrial spirits (flushing spirits, carburettor spirits, solvent etc.) is another large area of use for ethanol.
Ethanol as fuel for cars is relatively new. However, the potential market is very large. In Brasil, most "gasoline cars" is propelled by ethanol, either as pure ethanol or as a mixed fuel with 20-25 % ethanol. In US most gasoline contains 10% ethanol, a fact that has been accepted by all car manufacturers.
In Sweden 5 % ethanol is blended into regular petrol (more than 90 % of gasoline sold has been blended with ethanol). Close to 250 000 m3 ethanol is annually used for low-blending in Sweden. In addition, ethanol is used in E85, E95 and as pure fuel, which together account for over 100 000 m3 annually in Sweden.
In the rest of the EU the use of bio-ethanol varies from one member state to the next. There was a doubling of the European ethanol market between 2005 and 2007 and the total market is over 2 million m3.
Agrodrank™ 90 - DDGS
The most important product in besides ethanol is DDGS. It contains over 30% protein and is a high-value feed raw material. The DDGS is marketed as Agrodrank™ 90 to feed plants and large animal farms, who mix it with other raw materials into concentrates for cattle and other farm animals. Please refer to our product sheet for details.
Carbon dioxide
As the yeast cells transform sugar into ethanol, carbon dioxide is released. This carbon dioxide originates form the grain and is part of the natural carbon recycling and is classified as “green carbon dioxide”.
2.7 kg of wheat gives
- 1 liter ETHANOL E100
- 0,85 kg protein feed - ddgs
- 0.8 kg carbon dioxide.