Broin Announces New Ethanol Process

Broin Announces New Ethanol Process

The Broin Companies have announced a new patent-pending technology for ethanol production that eliminates a costly energy-consuming cooking step in the process. The Broin Project X (BPX) process not only reduces energy costs, but also releases additional starch content for conversion to ethanol, increases protein content and quality of byproducts, increases byproduct flowability, potentially increases plant throughput, and significantly decreases plant emissions, according to the company.

Jeff Broin, CEO, Broin Companies, said, “The BPX process may be the biggest breakthrough in starch conversion to ethanol in more than 100 years. We have already implemented the process commercially in three major U.S. ethanol plants with excellent results.”

The BPX process was developed in Broin Companies laboratories and optimized in Broin’s production scale research facility. Broin filed patents for the BPX process and for the use of enabling enzymes for this new conversion system.

After consulting with several enzyme technology providers on the BPX process, Novozymes, a major developer and marketer of starch conversion enzymes to the ethanol industry, was chosen to partner on the project due to its track record of developing advanced enzyme technologies. The collaboration resulted in the development of new enzyme products that enhance the BPX process.