Got Feedstock? Have Greenbelt Resources Test For Feasibility

PASO ROBLES, Calif., Nov. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The beauty of bioethanol is that it can be created from an amazing number of feedstocks of which many are considered waste – especially "food wastes". Greenbelt Resources Corporation (OTC: GRCO) (Greenbelt) evaluates these feedstocks through its Feedstock Feasibility Testing Services and the results determine whether an unexpected or cellulosic feedstock will succeed at commercial scale. The program is celebrating its three-year anniversary and has successfully tested many feedstocks. Greenbelt's feasibility testing has found that trub, winery wastes, fruit around the nut, or the undesirable part of the fruit, all show great potential.

Greenbelt Chief Technology Officer Floyd Butterfield explains the three main issues in determining whether a feedstock is commercially viable:

1. Can enough alcohol be extracted from the feedstock?
2. How easily does it distill and is pre-treatment needed?
3. Are contaminants present?

"It's important to run such tests because the final determination of feasibility may seem counter intuitive," says Butterfield, "For example, a feedstock may not seem to pass one of the three questions, but if there is a high cost associated with other alternative uses, the feedstock could still prove to be economically viable."

Another factor that improves a feedstock's viability is what, if any, other byproducts other than bioethanol can be produced during the process. Feedstocks that produce bioproducts such as animal feed, edible dietary protein supplements, organic fertilizer and/or distilled water become more economically viable feedstocks at commercial scale.

Greenbelt has developed and commercialized a "community scale" waste-to-energy technology that annually produces 500,000 to 1 million gallons of bioethanol. Greenbelt CEO Darren Eng says the scale and design of Greenbelt's systems allows them to take full advantage of lower volume feedstocks such as the leftovers from juice manufacturing that would not otherwise be viable for a 30 million gallon plus biofuel plant.

"We do our research and testing at our facility in Paso Robles, California," says Eng. "The plant is commercial scale so our Feedstock Feasibility Testing Service mimics the feedstock's performance in an operation of 1 million gallons of bioethanol per year. Testing viability at commercial scale enables our clients to know, without a doubt, that if we declare a feedstock viable it will perform as expected."

Visit the Greenbelt website to learn more about performance testing for clients such as POM Wonderful, Barrelhouse Brewery, Central Coast Wine Services and EcoPAS.

About Greenbelt Resources
Greenbelt Resources Corporation™ is an award-winning provider of sustainable energy production systems focused on delivering modular solutions that enable the localized processing of locally generated waste into locally consumed products. Greenbelt designs, develops and implements technology that makes the production of advanced biofuel reliable, practical and efficient. Controlled by proprietary automated controls, Greenbelt's small-scale, end-to-end modular systems convert food, beverage and other cellulosic wastes into commercially viable advanced biofuels (bioethanol), animal feed, fertilizer and filtered water. For more information visit www.greenbeltresources.com.

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