4 minutes with… Carl Glanzman, PE Manager, Nishnabotna Naturals

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.

Experimenting with:

DDG value added products (plant nutrition),

soil mycorhizoidal stimulant production,

design of passive and active heating and cooling systems for year-round produce production using dried distiller grains,

consulting on design and enhancement of ethanol plant energy efficiency using the concept of co-location.

Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months.

Reached threefold increase in sales price of DDG byproducts. Currently working on gas turbine electrical generating station as complimentary plant to wind turbine farm grid and ethanol plant. Using DDG for compost in sustainable produce farm.

What do you feel are the most important milestones the industry must achieve in the next 5 years?  

energy use reduction per gallon ethanol

capture and use of CO2 gasin plant stacks for algae production

water use reduction per gallon ethanol produced

capture and re-use of moisture in stack gases

If you could snap your fingers and change one thing about the Advanced Bioeconomy, what would you change? 

Force EPA to admit that changes in RFS and RINs are due to administration desire to gain financing of political campaigns by big oil.

Of all the reasons that influenced you to join the Advanced Bioeconomy industry, what single reason stands out for you as still being compelling and important to you?  

Global warming.

Where are you from? 

Born Idaho, raised Oregon, worked as engineer in Germany and US.

What was your undergraduate major in college, and where did you attend? Why did you choose that school and that pathway?

Civil and Sanitary (now Environmental Engineering)

Postgraduate work in Environmental Engineering with minor in Ocean Engineering.

Who do you consider your mentors – could be personal, business, or just people you have read about and admire. What have you learned from them?

Wolfgang Koeniger, Forschungsingenieur, Dorsch Consult, Germany. How to think outside the box.

What’s the biggest lesson you ever learned during a period of adversity?  

The strong move on, the weak whimper and disappear.

What hobbies do you pursue, away from your work in the industry?

Horses

Organic farming

What are 3 books you’d want to have with you, if you were stranded on a desert island

Biological Orcharding by Micheal Philips

KSU research on Bioextensive Agriculture at Kerr Farm

The new Testament

What books or articles are on your reading list right now, or you just completed and really enjoyed?  

Sources of Hindu Tradition

What’s your favorite city or place to visit, for a holiday?

St. Gallen, Switzerland