Saturday, July 31st, 2010

About

Facts About Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy LLC

Our Ethanol Manufacturing Plant is made up of 305 Investors, 13 Board of Directors (who are all investors), and 31 employees.

What do we do?

  • Produce 40 plus million gallons of Ethanol per year
  • Produce Wet and Dry Distillers Grains that are used as nutritious livestock feed
  • Produce CO2 Gas (we currently have not developed a market for CO2)

Production Requirements:

  • Use 15,000,000 bushels of Grain per Year
  • 42,000 Bu Grain per Day
  • 1.8 Truck Loads per Hour
  • Receive Grain 5 days per Week
  • Produce 415,000 Tons Wet Distillers Grain per Year
  • There are 2 Grain Silo that hold 200,000 bushels each
  • Use 1,152,000 MMBTU Natural Gas per Year
  • 3,200 MMBTU per day
  • $28,800 per Day @ $9.00 per MMBTU
  • $10,368,000 per Year

Energy Alley

  • Use 3.2 Giga Watts per Hour of Electricity
  • $3,900 per Day
  • $1,404,000 per Year

Interesting facts on the construction of our ethanol plant

  • 12,000 Cubic Yards of Concrete
  • 335 Tons of Rebar for Concrete
  • 34,800 Linear Feet of Piping(6.6 Miles of Pipe)
  • 375,000 Linear Feet of Wire(71Miles of Wire)
  • 22,000 Terminations (Wiring Points)
  • 3,500 Linear Feet of Cable Tray (the structure that holds the wire)
  • 43,100 sq ft of Siding
  • 58,000 sq ft of Insulation
  • 450 Tons of Structural Steel
  • 13,100 Masonry Blocks
  • 1,590 Instruments (Control Valves, Flow Valves, Temp. Transmitters, Pressure Indicators and etc.)
  • 175,740 Approximate Employee Hours Worked to Build the Plant