Panda Ethanol
Sherman County Selected to Host Panda's Second Texas Ethanol Plant
Once built, the 115 million gallon-per-year denatured ethanol facility will annually refine an estimated 38 million bushels of feedstock-grade corn into a clean burning, renewable fuel. The ethanol produced will displace approximately 2.6 million barrels of imported oil 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.
Sherman County, Texas
Manure Gasification Plant
The Sherman refinery will be located on a 1,200 acre site three miles northwest of Stratford, Texas.
Local Support
"This facility will be an economic boon to the area …It will create an estimated 61 skilled jobs and 77 additional support jobs. All together, the construction and ongoing operation of the plant is expected to infuse more than $220 million into the area's economy over the next 10 years."
— Kathy Allen, executive director of the Sherman County Development Committee
"They've done a good job answering questions and building support for the project. We're pleased they chose Sherman County as the location for their next ethanol plant."
— Sherman County, Texas, Judge Terry Beth Carter
Facility Facts
- Location: Sherman County, Texas
- Site size: 1,200 acres
- Co-Products: Ethanol, distillers grain, CO2, ash
- Ethanol Capacity: 115 million gallons-per-year on a denatured basis
- Type of Distillers Grain : WDGS
- Fuel: Cattle manure
- Air Permit Received: TBA
- Anticipated Construction Start Date: TBA
- Anticipated Date of Commercial Operations: TBA