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Trojan Corn, or 20 billion reasons to Think Outside the Tank

Earlier this year, Syngenta received the OK from the USDA to commercialize its alpha-amylase corn. The news generated a smattering of interest amongst the broader biofuels community, which has been more engaged in thinking about tax credits, the future of the Renewable Fuel Standard, and IPO heaven.

Another step-change in enzymes? Yawn. The industry has been so inundated with dramatic improvements in enzyme performance, that they generally rate as a highly reliable page-view killer for biofuels websites.

But Syngenta’s technology is worth a deeper look – for 20 billion reasons. That’s a back-of-the-envelope calculation of the addressable, equity creation impact of Syngenta’s newest and latest.

That’s more than enough equity currency, for example, to build the 20 billion gallons of advanced biofuels capacity, for example, to meet the 2022 Renewable Fuel Standard. Or simply to provide transformative amounts of cash flow to ethanol producers, and growers.

One other reason to watch this technology closely – the revolutionary step of delivering a transformative enzyme into the ethanol process – outside of the fermentation tank. The alpha-amylase is delivered inside the corn – mighty Trojans hereafter described as the “Enogen-branded trait” – that leap out of the kernel during grinding.

What does the amylase do, when released, via grinding, into the ethanol process? It decreases the viscosity – which is to say it makes it more liquidy in its performance, before adding in the water.

Sounds pretty simple – why is that a big deal?

Well, every person is a kind of biorefinery, so you know it works. Try eating a bowlful of corn flakes in a real hurry some time, without the milk. After a while, it’s impossible to swallow. If you could make corn flakes perform like, say, jello – you don’t choke while doing a morning eat-and-dash, and you need less milk.

Take that effect out into industrial fermentation using the dry-grind process – that’s liquefaction. The alpha-amylase adds viscosity to the corn, from inside the kernel. The ethanol process is, in this case, doing the swallowing. With a more slippery corn, you can take solids all the way to fuel, faster, and with less water use – just like you and your corn flakes.

Plus, since you put less water in there, you save on the cost of heating up, and cooling off, all that water in the industrial fermentation process – and the power it takes to move all that weight through the pipes. Plus, it’s speedier.

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