It is Ethanol made from sweet sorghum.

Why do we need Sorganol®?

Sweet Sorghum is the BEST Alternative Fuel Crop
In the Continental United States to Grow
For the production of Ethanol

All bio energy comes from the sun. Corn converts that sunlight into starches. These starches must then be converted, With a Costly Process, into sugars. These sugars are then converted into ethanol.

Sweet sorghum takes the sunlight and converts it directly into sugars. Eliminating the costly starch to sugars process. These sugars are converted directly into ethanol At nearly ZERO FOSSIL FUEL INPUTS. 



Table III-8
ACREAGE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE BIOMASS FOR A 25 MILLION GALLON PER YEAR 
ETHANOL PRODUCTION FACILITY

On the basis of the assumptions presented in this chapter, sugar cane varieties, sweet sorghum, 
MSW and paper wastes appear to have the most immediate potential to serve as sources of biomass for ethanol production.
While Sugarcane out produces Sorghum, it cannot be produced in the Midwest due to it's growing season.
Source: http://www.hawaii.gov/dbedt/ert/ethanol/ch3.html

Since 1988, Dr. Anderson of ISU has been researching and growing this crop.

Data indicated a yield of over 800 gal/acre

Crop is very low input

Requires only 1/4 - 1/3 the inputs of corn of corn

New varieties, harvesting and processing techniques have pushed this potential to 1000  gallons/acre.


CORN vs. SORGANOL ®


Corn:

Average 160/bushel/acre x $2.40/bushel = $384.00 per acre

 

SORGANOL ®:

75,000#/acre x 65% juice recovery = 48,750# juice/acre

48,750#/acre x 18% sugar = 8,775# sugar/acre

  8,755#/sugar/acre @ 10:1 ratio =  877 gal/acre

877 gal/acre X $1.50 / gal = $1,315/ acre

New Varieties promise over 1000 gal/acre

With it we can cut our dependency on Foreign Oil!!!

If American converted to 100% Ethanol Vehicles

IOWA and Illinois could produce enough fuel

for the Nation!

Sorganol ® is not just a new
renewable energy crop . . . It is a totally new Process!

 

The farmer can own the total process from seed to tanker truck.  

Planting is done with standard equipment.

Seed input requires just 2 lbs. per acre.

 

From:  Irwin C Anderson

Sent:  Tuesday, March 05, 2002

Below are some of our sweet sorghum data from Ames, Iowa and Chariton, Iowa.

 

                 YEAR        Dry wt/acre    Fresh wt/acre      Juice wt/acre*        Gallon ethanol/acre**

AMES

                 1988           14900              74550                   59650                               895

                 1989          14600              50360                   35760                               535

                 1990           17500              54700                    37200                              558

                 1991           14500              63000                    48500                              727

                 1992           15600              67900                    52300                              785

CHARITON

                 1988           17500              71800                   53900                               808

                 1989          14400              53250                   38850                               582

                 1990           18800              55200                    36400                              546

                 1991           15200              60100                    44900                              674

                 1992           18500              69500                    51000                              765

 

• These values are a mean of four replications with 4 rates of N fertilizer. 
• Sweet sorghum was grown in a rotation of corn – soybean – sorghum. 
• Plot size was 20 feet x 40 feet long.
• In the same experiment we had sorghum grown in two other rotations.
• I have grown some at Ames since then.

 

If grown in proper rotation with soybeans, NO Nitrogen fertilizer is needed!

New Varieties are hardy, drought and disease resistant!

 

This data was taken from the University of Kentucky Field trial results!

A typical large mill used for squeezing the stalks for syrup production.

This process is inefficient for ethanol production as stated by Dr. Anderson of ISU!

The Field Harvester will eliminate  the outlined problems.

 

 

Lee McClune and S&S Machine Tool Company have made several prototype field harvesters.     Patent Pending.  These have been used at Ames when conducting research.    Demonstrations will be made this fall on a test plot close to Pleasantville, Iowa.

The juice containing the sugars are harvested by the patented Harvester equipment

and delivered by a bulk tank to the farm storage tanks for fermentation.

 

The crop should yield 4000 – 6000 gal/acre. 

Therefore large storage tanks are used to hold the juice for fermentation and storage.

Special Agents are added to initiate the fermentation process.

This is all done at the On Farm Site.  

The Ethanol will be extracted by a mobile distillation unit

to be brought to the Farm Site,

For cost effectiveness, 20% of the stover will be used

 in a bale burner unit to provide the heat energy for the distillation process.

 

 

 

Lower Cost Production

Investors are welcome!   If you are interested in growing or investing in this new exciting process, Now is the time!

Only two pounds of seed per acre, at $5.00 per pound

Drought resistant crop

Fertilizer inputs are only 60-60-60

•Ethanol produced at near zero fossil fuel inputs.

•15%-20% of the stalks used in a bale-burning unit to provide the heat energy for the ethanol extraction unit.

 

What’s Next?

SORLAC ™

$3,000 -$5,000   per acre