BioFuels Journal

New York—GreenShift Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: GERS) announced Jan. 14 that its NextDiesel™ branded corn oil derived biodiesel has superior cold flow properties compared to biodiesel produced from soybean oil, a conventional biodiesel feedstock.

GreenShift’s patent-pending corn oil extraction technology (“COES”) extracts inedible crude corn oil from distillers grain, a co-product of ethanol production, for conversion into biodiesel.

GreenShift’s extraction technologies have the capability of extracting more than 6.5 million gallons of crude corn oil for every 100 million gallons of corn ethanol produced.

According to the Renewable Fuels Association, more than 8.9 billion gallons of corn-derived ethanol were produced during 2008.

This equates to a potential U.S. total annual production of about 580 million gallons per year of inedible corn oil that is recoverable with GreenShift’s patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies.

With cloud points ranging between -3°C and -5°C, GreenShift’s NextDiesel™ branded corn oil biodiesel (corn oil methyl ester, or “CME”) consistently achieves superior cold flow properties as compared to biodiesel produced from soybean oil derived biodiesel (soy methyl ester, or “SME”).

SME is well known for its benchmark high quality and good cold flow properties in the U.S. markets.

Patrick Bush, GreenShift’s vice president of biodiesel technology, commented, “The specifications of NextDiesel™ CME translate to enhanced quality and reliability for cold weather applications as compared to SME or other conventional biodiesel products.”

Mr. Bush heads up GreenShift’s biodiesel technology development activities with Phil Bollheimer, GreenShift’s director of process design, and other key members of GreenShift’s process engineering team.

Mr. Bollheimer continued, “It is easy to assume that the clear, water white biodiesel that is produced by energy and carbon intensive methyl ester distillation technologies has superior quality.

"While this is generally true as compared to most conventional feedstock-derived biodiesel fuels, the specifications of GreenShift’s NextDiesel™ CME are in fact superior due, in part, to the fact that distillation technologies cannot remove the hidden and unfavorable impurities that have molecular weights close to the saturated and unsaturated components of biodiesel.”

Bush concluded, “We are shipping NextDiesel™ CME today.

"Our production data demonstrates that the almost 600 million gallons per year of inedible crude corn oil that are recoverable with GreenShift’s patent-pending corn oil extraction technologies can make a significant contribution to the renewable fuels industry not just in volume and environmental benefit but in fuel quality, as well.”

GreenShift’s array of biodiesel process technologies produce an exceptional finished product that meets the cold soak filtration testing requirements of the newest ASTM specification for biodiesel.

For more information, call 212-994-5374.

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