The Wyoming Business Council Agribusiness Division has received a grant for their research. They are actually planning to buy a press- equipment, which will be to crush the Camelina to extract oil from it. The grant which they have received, will help a great deal to take it all around their state to show the producers the way it works. It is called a mobile press .It is believed to extract about 40-45% oil. Earlier, the problem they faced was the the processing of Camelina near the place where it was grown. They hope that this mobile press will solve this problem..They feel that it can be rolled out and set up for demonstration and small-scale research. In March, the Camelina company in Montana was after a press, I don’t know if this mobile press would be of any help to them.
The focus of this research has been the biofuel. However, there are some questions which arise at this point? Generally speaking, when a seed is pressed only one-third of it is fat and the rest is its meal . What will be done with the leftover Camelina stuff (meal) after the oil extraction ?
Efforts are underway to check if this will be economically feasible. Researchers wonder what they could do with such a huge quantity of meal . Hence, they would like to research on this topic for another two years or so before jumping into further conclusions.
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