Greenville, OH: Andersons Marathon Ethanol LLC

Andersons Ethanol Facilities

A quote from Andersons web page:

The Andersons Marathon Ethanol LLC, completed in February 2008, is a joint venture between The Andersons Ethanol Investment LLC, a subsidiary of The Andersons, Inc., and Marathon Petroleum Corporation. The Andersons manages the 110 million gallon ethanol plant, the largest facility of its kind in Ohio. The plant requires 40 million bushels of corn to operate and also produces 350,000 tons of distiller dried grains annually. Ethanol, E-85, Corn Oil and C02 are available.

Satellite

The Google image is interesting because it shows that a "Continental Carbonic" facility has been built next to the ethanol facility. It creates dry ice from the CO2 produced by the ethanol facility. This squeezes more money out of a bushel of corn. Unfortunately, it does not keep the greenhouse gas out of the atmosphere because when the dry ice is used, the CO2 is released to the atmosphere. (In addition to keeping products such as medicines and food cold, a major use is dry ice blasting.) The plant also creates liquefied CO2 for the beverage industry.

Update: The plant is getting a $1.2 million upgrade.

Making dry ice does not keep the carbon out of the atmosphere. It just delays its release into the atmosphere. ADM's Decature, IL plant is pumping the CO2 into the ground to keep it out of the atmosphere.