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Iowa State engineer scales in place a process that could improve the economics production of ethanol.

Iowa State University, Hans van Leeuwen winning idea has spent his research team to improve production of ethanol from the laboratory to pilot plant.

Now he knows the idea, which produces a stream of new and clean water that can be reused for ethanol production, work more effectively in groups of up to 350 gallons on a laboratory bench.

"We learned that we can reliably produce good quality and good quantity," said van Leeuwen, Iowa State Vlasta Balloun Klima engineering professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering construction.

As van Leeuwen and a team of researchers from Iowa is producing a fungus, Rhizopus oligosporus, which makes high quality, high protein foods from the remains of ethanol production. The process of mushroom cultivation purified water from the production of ethanol so it can be recycled into fuel. And the process is called MycoMeal could one day produce an inexpensive food supplement for humans.

Source: University of Illinois Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research (CABER)

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