On 19 Nov., the local authority accepted and publicized the environmental impact (EI) report of COFCO Biochemical Energy (Gongzhuling) Co., Ltd. (COFCO Gongzhuling)’s starch plant renovation project.
Project overview
- Construction nature: technical renovation
- Location: Henan Street, Gongzhuling City, Jilin Province
- Total investment: USD5.4 million (RMB38.3429 million), of which USD0.17 million (RMB1.2 million) is for environmental protection
- Construction content: The product plan and product quality standards of the starch workshop will remain unchanged before and after the technical renovation.
- Labour force: no new additions; relying on current 125 staffs.
- Working system: 330 working days per year
- Construction period: 5 months.
- Technical indicators after technical renovation
| Retrofit Process | Fresh steam savings | Electricity savings | Water content % | |||||
| t/ton starch | t/a | kwh/ton starch | kwh/year | Before technical renovation | After technical renovation | Changes | ||
| Evaporation process | 0.16 | 65,600 | 6.56 | 2,689,600 | – | – | – | |
| By-product dehydration process | Fiber | – | – | 3.69 | 1,512,900 | 58.50% | 56.50% | -2% |
| Germ | 0.02 | 8,200 | – | – | 55% | 54% | -1% | |
| Protein drying process | – | – | 1.95 | 799,500 | – | – | – | |
| Total | 0.18 | 73,800 | 12.2 | 5,002,000 | – | – | – | |
Currently, COFCO Gongzhuling processes 600,000 t/a of corn to produce the following products: 31,500 t/a of protein powder, 410,000 t/a of starch, 97,200 t/a of spray dried corn bran, 200,000 t/a of HFCS, 50,000 t/a of maltodextrin, 63,000 t/a beer syrup, 38,400 t/a of corn crude oil, 94,400 t/a of corn germ meal, 8,000 t/a of hydroxypropyl distarch phosphate and 2,000 t/a of acetylated distarch adipate.
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