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Ethanol in Iowa

7 images Created 25 Aug 2010

Photographic essay on the construction of a corn ethanol production facility in Iowa by editorial photojournalist Scott Morgan.

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  • Workers from Miller Insulation of North Dakota remove scaffolding from the cook water tank Monday, December 8, 2003, after wrapping it with insulation. Water for the plant is pumped from a nearby well, and is recycled back into the system to be used again.
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  • The sun rises early Thursday, October 2, 2003 on workers erecting a 125-foot, 400,000-bushel silo built by McCormick Construction out of Rockford, Minn. The ethanol plant grinds 50,000 bushels of corn per day, making roughly 2.7 gallons of ethanol per bushel of corn, or about 45 million gallons of ethanol per year. The raw corn is not wasted in the process, rather, it is stripped of it's starch, and then dried and sold as cattle feed addative.
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  • Workers from Winbco Tank Company out of Ottumwa put a steel sheet in place on a 735,000-gallon fermintation tank Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003. There are three tanks at the site where cooked ethanol is fermented for two days before moving on in the process.
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  • Steven Abbott of Manito, Ill. welds a water pipe Tuesday, November 11, 2004, which will carry water into the ethanol plant.
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  • Anthony Travis of Cape Girardo, Mo. guides the lid of a 730,000-gallon tank as it is lifted into place Friday, Sept. 26, 2003, while working for Winbco Tank Company of Ottumwa. Big River Resources built the plant with expansion in mind, and left room for two more of the giant tanks that will increase the plant's productivity.
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  • Lights illuminate a 125-foot tall silo Thursday, October 2, 2003, as it is erected in a single pour of concrete by McCormick Construction of Rockford, Minnesota. The process had three crews working 24-hours-a-day for five days to create a silo that can hold 400,000 bushels of corn.
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  • Fagen workers walk out of the process center under dryer vents Monday, December 15, 2003, where the corn, which has had the starch removed to create ethanol, is dried for the distilled dry grain and sold as feed. The process produces 16 pounds of feed additive per bushel of corn, which weighs 56-pounds.
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