Panda Ethanol
Haskell County Chosen as Site of
105 MMGY Denatured Ethanol Facility
Once built, the facility will annually refine approximately 38 million bushels of corn into a clean-burning, renewable fuel for the nation's transportation needs. The Haskell facility will generate the steam used in the ethanol manufacturing process by gasifying more than 1 billion pounds of cattle manure a year.
- Double-loop rail track: Unlike "traditional" ethanol facilities, Panda uses a double-loop track to allow for the efficient unloading of a 110-car unit train of corn while simultaneously loading a 95-car unit train of ethanol.
- Manure Handling Area: distributes and feeds manure to the gasifier providing an uninterrupted flow of biomass material to fuel the steam process.
- Gasifier: gasifies the manure to generate the steam required for ethanol production.
- Wet Distillers Grain Building: for the handling, storage and load out of wet distillers grains.
- Ethanol Production Area: is the heart of the facility where fermentation, dehydration, distillation and evaporation occur.
- Ethanol Storage Tank: holds 4.5 million gallons of the finished product ready for loading.
- Grain Storage and Conveyor Feed: stores and feeds corn to the ethanol production process. A typical ethanol facility of this size stores 30 days worth of grain. Panda's facilities will store 45 days of corn or 4.8 million bushels.
Haskell, Kansas
This plant is planned on a 1,120-acre site halfway between Satanta and Sublette, Kansas, in Haskell County, Kansas.
Local Support
"Panda's ethanol facility is just the shot in the arm our county needs as an economic boost," stated Bill Lower, Chairman of the Haskell County Commissioners. "We are very proud to be the future home of a facility that produces an environmentally clean fuel that will help lower gasoline prices while reducing America's dependence on foreign oil."
"Panda worked very hard to address our questions and develop a broad base of support within our community," stated Kevin Wagner, Haskell County Economic Development Advisory Board. "We are excited to have an ethanol plant in Haskell County that creates new jobs, strengthens the economy and broadens our tax base while producing a home grown fuel that can help lower the cost of gasoline."
Facility Facts
- Location: Haskell County, Kansas
- Site size: 1,120 acres
- Co-Products: Ethanol, distillers grain, CO2, ash
- Nameplate ethanol capacity: 105 million gallons-per-year on a denatured basis
- Type of distillers grain: WDGS
- Fuel: Cattle Manure
- Air Permit Received: March, 2006
- Anticipated Construction Start Date: TBA
- Anticipated Date of Commercial Operations: TBA
Unique Site Attributes
- 2.3 million head of cattle on feed within 100 miles of Haskell plant, representing an ample supply of biomass and a captive market for WDGS.
- Local feed yards within 50 miles of Haskell plant generate 925,000 tons of manure annually, almost 2x the amount needed to fuel the facility.
- Contracts in place for 600,000 tons of manure, 114% of the plant's need.
- Haskell's annual output of distillers grains represents 26% of the local feed yard market's 1.3 million ton demand.