Center Ethanol Plant

completed

MC Industrial delivered a high-production $101 million bio-refinery for Center Ethanol on a 57-acre campus in Sauget, Ill., just across the Mississippi River from the Gateway Arch. The full-service ethanol production facility included innovative construction for receiving, grain storage, grinding, processing, and fermentation while also requiring electrical, maintenance, and office construction. There were 18 field-erected tanks, including four 763,000-gallon fermentation tanks, a 1 million-gallon 'beer' well, and four distillation tanks. The plant uses approximately 19.2 bushels of corn each year while producing approximately 54 million gallons of ethanol per year. It also produces 150,000 tons of dry distillers grain and 2 million gallons of corn oil.