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�llGtL�'C1r c��f1'��f <br /> This is a general description of the process used to make alcohol at <br /> the Lockeford, California Winery owned by United States Gasohol Corporation. <br /> The charge stock that will be used is molasses. It will be trucked <br /> from the port to the plant in Lockeford, California. After entering the <br /> plant, the molasses will be stored in concrete tankage on the premises <br /> in the f=ermentation Building. This will consist ofapproximately 400,000 <br /> gallons of storage for raw molasses. <br /> Upon leaving storage, the molasses will go to the next set of twelve <br /> tanks and will then begin the process. <br /> Fermentation is started by adding yeast and enzymes to the molasses. <br /> The fermentation process will take approximately forty-eight hours, at <br /> that time we will have alcohol at about eleven percent (11%) . The Cal r,1ho'! <br /> will then be transferrer) to the storage building which will have approxi- <br /> mately 340,000 gallons of storage from the fermenters. This will be a <br /> holding tanK used before the product is run thru the Baer still . After <br /> running it thru the beer still and processing it there, the alcohol will <br /> be approximately 190 proof. After processing in the beer still the product <br /> will be moved to steel tankage f mind "Che, dist) 1 lation bui IC!ing and ari'a's <br /> the road beside the storage building marked Tanks 1 , 2, _5 and 6. This <br /> will be used ad intermediate storage so that the new Azeotropic Section <br /> to be added can be run at a constant twenty-four hour per day process. <br /> Sutra 13;3L • Su-tor, PI&tee - Wicl�itc�. KFsr.sas 672077 ; `C`rleph- (31x3) 2E37-242C! • 'TelEx 417,7?1E3J <br />