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Eco-Sol and its subsidiary Southwestern Agricultural Technologies provide a unique integrated approach to renewable energy and sustainable agriculture while providing solutions that are truly environmentally friendly when compared to current “Green” industry practices. Through pursuit of enabling technologies and oil producing crops, Eco-Sol will be poised to become a major player in the growing biofuels industry.
Our intent is to minimize not just monetary costs by eliminating unneeded processing, transportation, and chemicals, but to minimize our environmental impact and carbon footprint as well. This is done through careful selection of oilseed feedstocks from area and climate suitable ecosystems with an eye to reducing the water and energy used in production. Through cooperative agreements with local gins, mills and farmers we will provide a locally grown, low maintenance, low input source of raw material. Additionally Eco-Sol minimizes the fossil fuels used in transportation of raw materials by locating at the points where these materials are gathered and distributed. Eco-Sol’s manufacturing process and facilities will be a closed energy system powered by our biodiesel resulting in a truly “green” production model with minimal waste and optimum efficiency.
Launching it’s largest project to date, Eco-Sol has developed a proprietary process that will raise the value of cottonseed crops substantially while producing as a by-product significant quantities of virgin oil feed stock for biodiesel operations. Through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Eco-Sol will work directly with growers and producers and help them close the carbon cycle by providing quality biodiesel specifically for the agricultural and off-highway use markets. Eco-Sol achieves this while improving an undervalued crop through production of a vastly enhanced seed meal for the dairy industry. Initial pilot plant operations will be conducted at the USDA ARS Cotton Ginning Research Lab in Las Cruces, New Mexico.