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"Green" Manufacturing Process

CBE plants produce ethanol by processing wood waste from wood mill and lumber processing facilities. Feedstock in "standing dead" forests from insect infestation or "slash pile" accumulation from private and national forest thinning operations. The wood is converted to ethanol through a proprietary pretreatment technology developed by KL using virtually no acids. This environmentally friendly process is the "greenest" of all the technologies currently in development for production of CBE.

KL technology makes it economical to convert woody biomass feedstock into cellulose ethanol using a thermal-mechanical and enzymatic hydrolysis process. The lignin is an energy rich product which can be burned to generate steam or electricity or marketed as a value-added wood pellet co-product.

Co-Product Synergies

Processing biomass using KL CBE technology offers a unique opportunity to produce a lignin-rich, higher BTU content stove pellet that provides many market advantages over the conventional wood pellet. As a natural consequence of converting the fermentable portion of the biomass feedstock to ethanol, the solid co-product can be formed into pellets that are denser and more durable than the typical wood pellet marketed today. The KL CBE process minimizes chemical biomass pretreatment because the lignin co-product chemistry is unaltered. This results in a clean-burning premium product.

The KL CBE process also produces a liquid co-product that contains high nutritional value for livestock, much like the syrup product from a corn ethanol plant. The liquid co-product can be used as a feed supplement for livestock in areas where corn or syrup from corn is not available.

The co-products produced have the potential to equal the dollar value of the ethanol produced wherein; co-product ownership is retained and value-added manufacturing and marketing relationships are applied.

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