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MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1979
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fuel plants to be marketed
United Press International
MONROE, La. — It could be the
tatus symbol that replaces the
trimming pool, the three-car garage
ad the videotape recorder.
For only $1,000, two Monroe resi
sts promise to build a complete
?sohol production plant in your
ackyard.
Fred Huenefeld, a leader of the
lemocratic Party in Louisiana, and
!en Tuck, a native of Dallas, said
iaturday they will market nation-
rbor toward Ira ride the gasohol plants designed to
outrage over tbt reduce 200 to 400 gallons of alcohol
sion.” ;day.
'ailing now, buls Tuck said the plan, which will be
now in Afghanis inveiled next Friday at a news con-
n, overthrow! erencc, is financed completely by
release the .hi irivate capital and represents an
Id in Tehran. T; nswerto the energy crisis.
The projections are not a dream,
. , ., , fuck said. “Naturally, we plan to
'b na ^ e money out of gasohol but that
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and-secattituik ■wket the plants, said they were
hanges in aniiM being built by Marlin Car Care Co.
een. in Marlin, Texas. Tuck said three
plants already have been built, but
ibey hope to sell 200.
The plant consists of a gasohol
bilerthat transforms grain products
-such as corn, sorghum and sugar
cane — into alcohol. The alcohol is
combined with nine parts of gasoline
to make a mixture called gasohol, or
vehicles could be converted to run
exclusively on alcohol fuel.
Tuck said representatives of four
foreign countries and 11 states will
be on hand Friday when the gasohol
project is explained on the front lawn
of the Monroe Civic Center. A gaso
hol plant will be set up and Tuck will
drive a motorcycle from the fuel that
is produced to prove the process
works.
Tuck said the Texas manufacturing
company, headed by Delaney
Sprinkles of Marlin, also was looking
into producing smaller units that
would make between 10 and 20 gal
lons of alcohol per week.
He said the marketing effort
would begin in the South and then
spread to the Midwest, where there
are huge supplies of grain products.
Exxon to let its customers
buy gasohol with credit cards
United Press International
HOUSTON — The Exxon Corp.
announced Saturday it reluctantly
would allow its credit cards to be
used in the purchase of gasohol at
Exxon stations.
The announcement was a depar
ture from policies adopted by several
other oil industry leaders which have
said they would not allow credit card
purchases of gasohol.
The company said it was allowing
the use of its credit cards for gasohol
to end a controversy over whether
credit cards should be used.
“The real issue in the role of gaso
hol is whether the fuel supplement
yields more energy than it takes to
produce and, as such, whether it can
make a positive contribution in re
ducing America’s oil imports, an
Exxon statement said.
The statement said its own experi
ment showed the process of making
gasohol used more energy than it
ultimately produced.
Exxon has refused to allow its cus
tomers to use Exxon credit cards for
the purchases of anything but Exxon
brand products.
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Gasohol to be made from grain
that was to go to Soviets?
United Press International
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. —The
federal government is about to pump
millions of dollars into speeded-up
research on bow to make alcohol fuel
from the grain America isn’t selling
to the Soviet Union.
Though no promise was made, Dr.
George Tsao, director of Purdue
University’s Renewable Resource
Engineering Laboratory, said the
offer of money seemed apparent in a
recent telephone conversation with
Energy Department officials.
He said someone from the depart
ment’s Energy' Conservation Divi
sion telephoned during the week and
asked him for more information and a
firm budget for speeding up his work
on alcohol production.
Tsao said they wanted him to cut
in half the time needed to complete
his work on how to produce alcohol
from corn without the troublesome
residue the liquor industry now has
to cope with.
Tsao has been working on the
problem with support from Purdue
and the Energy Department. A few
months ago he told the Energy De
partment he might soon be ready to
start a demonstration project, which
would that two years and more than
$1 million.
He said he could do the work to
nine to 12 months from the time the
contract starts but it will cost about
SI.8 million.
He stressed the project would be
for demonstration only. A produc
tion plant capable of turning one mil
lion tons of grain into 100 million
gallons of alcohol a year could cost
$150 million to $200 million, he said.
Grain alcohol now is made with
whole grain, which leaves behind a
residue known as dried distillers
solids, or DDS, DDS is full of pro
tein and could be fed to animals but
its liquid form makes it expensive to
ship.
Tsao said it would be simpler to
separate oil and protein before mak
ing alcohol out of the starch and fiber
remaining in the kernel. He uses the
traditional grain milling process to
separate the hull, with its fiber, from
the germ, which contains the oil.
Then solvent extraction is used to
remove the protein, which can be
used for animal food, and the fiber
and starch are left for alcohol produc
tion.
“Previously you could only make
alcohol from starch. We now have a
different kind of a mold culture
which can consume fiber as well as
starch and make thanol,” Tsao said.
He said this means 85 percent of
the kernel, instead of the previous 65
percent, potentially could be used to
make alcohol.
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