{"id":13993,"date":"2015-09-12T00:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-12T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=13993"},"modified":"2015-09-12T00:24:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T04:24:13","slug":"inside-tyton-bioenergy-systems-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/12\/inside-tyton-bioenergy-systems-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Tyton BioEnergy Systems \u2013 Part #2"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re continuing our in-depth look at how Tyton BioEnergy Systems<\/a> is working on turning tobacco plants into useful products and chemicals. In the first article of this series, we took a look at what happens outside the building<\/a>. In Part #2, we’ll look inside the building at the machinery & the process.<\/p>\n

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Let’s continue where we left off…<\/p>\n

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The special non-smoking tobacco strain that Tyton uses in grown by local farmers. It can grow to 12 feet tall. These plants are sitting on a table, but company president Peter Majeranowski is 6′ 3″ tall for reference.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tyton was showing a video on the media tour that showed the harvesting process. Since the entire tobacco plant is used, a harvester can be used to mow the plants down.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tyton’s machinery and process with produce sugars and oils. The oils will go to a refinery where they can be processed into ethanol and biodiesel. The small tubes contain “char”. that has carbon and nutrients that can enrich soil.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tyton continues to do research at their facility. Here, juice from the tobacco plant is mixed with corn slurry. It’s fermenting in this machine for testing.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Majeranowski is now talking about the new extractor machine. He describes it as a “big pressure cooker”.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The material from the outside process goes into the tank via the pipe system in the upper right of this photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The tobacco plant material is processed and sent to this part of the machine.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Here’s a close up of how the cooking tank gets the raw materials.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tyton’s research is proprietary, but I did notice these freezers that were set on -40 degrees.<\/p><\/div>\n

In the next part, we’ll take a look at the press conference that happened as well as more from inside the operations of Tyton BioEnergy Systems. SouthsideCentral is the only place to get in-depth coverage like this and we’re glad you stop by daily!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re continuing our in-depth look at how Tyton BioEnergy Systems is working on turning tobacco plants into useful products and chemicals. In the first article of this series, we took a look at what happens outside the building. In Part #2, we’ll look inside the building at the machinery & the process.<\/p>\n

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