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Project Information
Electric Wholesale Co.
Site Location: Goldfield, Iowa
General Description
Corn, LLC
/ Gold Eagle Cooperative ethanol plant site near Goldfield,
Iowa, utilizes steam tube dryers and coal to fire the plant,
two unique features in the ethanol industry.
Central Iowa
Renewable Energy LLC, a 50-mmgy, $90 million project, is the
first U.S. plant to use steam tube dryers to dry its
distillers grains. The facility could also be the first U.S.
coal-fired plant to be built in more than 20 years.
The
plant will take in 20 million bushels of corn and produce
160,000 tons of distillers grains. With the steam tube
drying, the plant’s distillers grains should have a higher
protein context because of the lower drying temperatures
compared to other typical drying methods. Both ethanol and
distillers grains can quickly be shipped out via a nearby
major highway or the Union Pacific Railroad. Central Iowa
Renewable Energy will have one of the largest railroad
settings in the country at nearly 7,000 feet.
The plant
produces ethanol 24/7 and is going all over the country with
most traveling by rail.
Not just any ethanol plant, but the
first dry grind plant in the United States to be powered
with clean coal technology. Coal is burned in the plant’s
fluid bed furnace to produce all of the facilities steam
needs. The only gas used is LP gas to light the furnace and
bring it up to 900 degrees F.
Shallbetter Inc.
Shallbetter
Inc. designed and constructed the 15kV, 1200A outdoor hybrid
switchgear line-up along with the walk-in, sheltered aisle
for Electric Wholesale Co.
The 15kV hybrid switchgear is
directly connected to MidAmerican Energy utility incoming
substations and provides distribution electrical power to
the facility as well as future provisions for a capacitor
bank and a generator set. |
