Shock Wave: Cavitation shaking up ethanol with revenue upside

Biofuels Digest
December 03, 2010 Jim Lane

In Ohio, Arisdyne Systems has pioneered technology that can increase ethanol production by 10 percent, or reduce the use of catalyst by 25 percent in biodiesel production. Taken across the US ethanol fleet (outside of POET, which uses its own proprietary system to achieve, potentially, a 5 to 10 percent improvement in productivity per gallon), that could translate to roughly 1.8 billion additional gallons of ethanol for the same delivery of corn, barley and wheat bushels. The technology? Hydrodynamic cavitation.

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