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RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: NRRI helps plan for Minnesota's next 50 years
Pavel Krasutsky, Chemical Extractives Laboratory

As long as the U.S. is going to dedicate 14.3 percent of its corn crop to ethanol production, the best we can do is make it as efficient as possible. NRRI’s Chemical Extractives Lab has applied for a patent for a new technology that increases the efficiency of the ethanol process by 15 percent. Read more…

Photo left: NRRI Chemist, Pavel Krasutsky, in the Chemical Extractives Laboratory.