Montana Microbial Products

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Montana Microbial Products

• A Research and Development Company
  commercializing microbial products and technology
• Products
• Enzymes for fuel alcohol production
• Integrated cellulose and starch process
• Barley protein concentrate for fish feed
• Bacteria to control plant diseases

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Fuel Alcohol Industry

• Developed to address high prices and help with
  energy independence
• Renewable Fuel Standard to create mandate and
  market for biofuels
• Current US industry based on corn
• Need for development of fuels from sources other
  than corn.
• DOE focus on cellulose (cellulosic ethanol)

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Cellulosic EthanolRenewable Fuel Standards
Schedule
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Cellulosic Ethanol Sources
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Cellulosic Ethanol Production

• Thermochemical
• CHP generate heat and power for sale on grid,
  syn gas becomes by-product or co-product
• High up-front capital costs access to grid
• Biochemical (Enzyme Based
• Focus on low-lignin agricultural waste feedstocks
  cornstover, wheat straw, sugarcane bigasse
• Lower up-front capital costs

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DOE Biofuels Policy

• High Impact Feedstocks 100 million tonnes
• Large Scale Biorefineries
• No starch
• 25 years and no commercial plants

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Cellulosic Ethanol Economics

• Low density expensive to haul
• 65/ton FOB Plant 0.76/gal etoh
• Very absorbent dilute slurries, high capital
  costs
• 4.50/gal plant capacity Debt repayment
  0.53/gal
• Expensive processing enzyme and energy cost
• Enzymes 0.36 to 0.50 gal etoh produced
• Distillation 3-4X conventional corn plant

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Regional Approaches

• Fit Project to Local Resources
• Use all available resources within reasonable
  distance, i.e. starch and cellulose sources
• Reduce Costs
• Reduce energy costs, i.e. Process changes, lignin
• Feedstock collected as a result of some other
  activity, i.e. wood waste, food processing, etc
• Create valuable co-products
• Barley protein, chemicals, energy products

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Straw to Ethanol Montana Resources

• Montana Barley Straw Fairfield Bench 710
  million gallons
• Integrate with feed barley, off spec malt barley,
  livestock feeding 1520 million gallons

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Add Value Food and Fuel

• Barley Protein Concentrate
• Aquaculture Feeds

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Creating Value

• One ton of barley will produce 560 lbs of BPC and
  83 gal of Ethanol
• BPC will sell for 700-800/ton (fishmeal sells
  for approximately 900/ton)
• EtOH will sell at prevailing market prices
• One ton of barley worth 278,
• Conventional ethanol (153 and DDG 125

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Aquaculture

• Aquaculture is the fastest growing sector of
  agriculture
• Fishmeal is the main diet constituent of farmed
  trout, salmon, shrimp and other hatchery fish
• It takes approximately 4.5 units of wild fish per
  unit of fishmeal
• 4,963,000 m. tons fishmeal consumed annually
• 46 aquaculture, 26 poultry, 24 pigs
• Major research effort to develop plant based
  protein sources to replace fishmeal

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Conclusion

• Biofuels from local biomass is feasible but
• Requires flexibility (think outside the box)
• Use all available resources
• Is capital intensive

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Thank You

• Contact Cliff Bradley, Bob Kearns
• MMP, 109 S. Parkmont, Butte
• 406 494 3390
• cbradley_at_montana.com
• kearns_at_3rivers.net