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Profit From Stover
Contract Features
Stover Pellets
Harvest
FAQ
Stover Resources
Talking About Corn Stover
The single largest source of low cost cellulose in this country is corn stover.
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Lonely Stalks
Those lonely cornstalks—called corn stover—left behind in the fields after the grain harvest is complete could someday become valuable raw material.
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Using corn stover pellets in coal-fired power plants
Plans to build a new cellulosic ethanol plant in central Nebraska have been put on hold. The plant was to have used corn stover and soybean stubble as the feedstock, but developers say they have found a better use for the product.
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Next Step employs proprietary, patent pending, processes to turn corn stover into PowerPellets™.
PowerPellets are a break through form of biomass because they burn like PRB coal and they ship and store like grain:
- Power Pellet density: 35-38lbs/ft3
- 30-40% reduction in transport cost
- Use existing, national grain infrastructure: rail & port
PowerPellets can be for used in multiple, worldwide markets:
- Co-fired with coal to generate cleaner electricity
- Burned by industry and institutions as a cleaner source of heat and power
- Used as feedstock for renewable cellulosic biofuels; and,
- Used as feedstock for manufacturing bio-chemicals, a green alternative to petro-chemicals
Coal-fired power plants can co-burn PowerPellets today to realize significant -- and valuable -- reductions to their carbon footprints.
- Coal-fired power generators worldwide are under enormous social and regulatory pressure to "green up"
- State, and soon-to-be Federal, RPS (Renewable Portfolio Standards) laws
- Carbon cap & trade programs pending in the U.S. and currently in place in dozens of nations
- PowerPellets are the fastest, easiest, most cost-effective way for coal-fired power generators to achieve RPS compliance and reap regulatory incentives
Next Step builds a local PowerPellet plant when it contracts with nearby farmers for at least 150,000 tons (or about 50,000 acres) of corn stover (and, soon to include other feedstocks).
Click here to contact one of our biomass procurement agents.
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PowerPellet Burn Test
Fireside performance and mercury emission evaluations of PowerPellet-Coal blends.
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Cost Comparison of PowerPellets
PowerPellets present a promising opportunity to generate cost-effective electricity using renewable crop waste.
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Charateristics of Biomass
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Heat Content -- 7,283 BTUs/lb (HHV) |
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Composition (% of mass) |
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Moisture |
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7.90 |
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Ash |
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9.05 |
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Volatile |
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63.40 |
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Fix Carbon |
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19.70 |
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Sulfur |
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0.18 |
Mineral Analysis of Ash (%)
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Phosphorous Pent Oxide |
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24.80 |
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Silicon Dioxide |
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18.00 |
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Ferric Oxide |
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1.85 |
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Aluminum Oxide |
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2.56 |
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Titanium Dioxide |
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0.16 |
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Manganese Dioxide |
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6.93 |
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Calcium Dioxide |
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21.20 |
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Magnesium Oxide |
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2.92 |
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Potassium Oxide |
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20.80 |
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Sodium Oxide |
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0.48 |
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Sulfur Trioxide |
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2.56 |
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Barium Oxide |
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0.16 |
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Strontium |
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0.08 |
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Undetermined |
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0.80 |
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