The revenues from co-products such as distillers grain are the second largest income for most ethanol plants. At the same time as distillers grain is gaining popularity as feed or as a feed ingredient the lack of consistent product quality is a growing concern.
FOSS solutions will help you produce distillers grain at a consistent high quality and at the same time get a tighter control of your back-end operations.
Routine analysis
For rapid routine analysis of DDGS quality FOSS offers Near-Infrared based solutions which allows for non-destructive analysis in less than a minute - at-line or in the laboratory.
InfraXact™ Analyzer is a robust analyzer which can be placed in production environment if desired and is easy enough to operate so that anyone can carry out the DDGS analysis, pelletized or ground, around the clock.
Parameters such as …
- Moisture
- Protein
- Fat
- Ash
- Fiber
…are analyzed in a minute, with little or no sample preparation.
Using the Infraxact at the back-end gives you a tighter control of the production (i.e. moisture control before and after centrifuging/drying) as well as a final quality check of the co-products.
Reference analysis
For analysis of distillers grain (DDGS), the industry has agreed to a set of common analytical reference methods which helps making the market place more harmonized and transparent.
The recommended methods from AFIA includes these dedicated solutions from FOSS:
