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Angelo Ligori is plant manager for Greenfield Specialty Alcohols. To his left is the part of the plant that produces ethanol for mixing with gasoline in Canada. To the right are the fermentation tanks where ethanol is made from corn.
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Angelo Ligori is the plant manager for Green Field Specialty Alcohols. In the part of the plant to the left of Ligori is where high quality industrial alcohols that are used in mouthwash, toothpaste and vodka, are made. To the right is the ethanol plant.
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The mash building below the smoke stack is where the corn is mashed up in preparation for extracting ethanol and other products.
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A truck picks up a load of distiller’s grain from Greenfield Specialty Alcohols plant in Chatham, Ontario. Trucks deliver corn to the ethanol plant and pick up distiller’s grain to feed livestock.
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A truck picks up a load of ethanol from the integrated Greenfield ethanol refinery (left) and another drops of corn for refining.
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The Greenfield plant already captures much of the carbon dioxide produced, but starting this year the heat (steam) and the remainder of the carbon dioxide will be captured and used by a neighbouring greenhouse to grow tomatoes.
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The Greenfield Specialty Alcohols plant in Chatham, Ontario produces about 200 million litres of ethanol per year, half of which is mixed with gasoline and the other half is upgraded to industrial alcohols used to make everything from shaving cream to vod
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About 19 million bushels of corn is delivered to the Greenfield ethanol plant each year (right truck) while 140,000 tonnes of distillers grains are sold via rail and truck to feed livestock.
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A truck picks up a load of distillers grain on the left and another drops of a load of corn on the right at the Greenfield Specialty Alcohols plant in Chatham, Ontario.
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Jason Vandernaalt of Greenfield Specialty Alcohols stands at the station where tanker trucks pick up loads of ethanol for use in gasoline in Canada.
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Praxair at Greenfield Ethanol Plant
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Carbon dioxide to go. This pipe will carry CO2 from the Greenfield ethanol plant to the Truly Green greenhouse where it will be used to grow tomatoes.
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Greg Devries, president of Truly Green Farms shows off a 5 million litre water tank that stores hot water to heat the large greenhouse when the boilers are off.
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Greg Devries of Truly Green greenhouse holds the pipe that will carry CO2 from the Greenfield ethanol plant to be fed to tomatoes in the greenhouse starting next year.
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Greg Devries of Truly Green points out the greenhouse irrigation system for vine tomatoes that are grown in a large 22.5 acre greenhouse that will soon be heated by waste heat and fed waste carbon dioxide from the Greenfield ethanol plant in Chatham, Onta
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Greg Devries, president of Truly Green in the centre isle that runs 426 metres to the other end of this 22.5 acre greenhouse of tomatoes that will soon be heated by waste heat from the Greenfield ethanol plant across the road.