The company was formed in late 1991 to carry out laboratory and pilot plant work, and continued development led to the current process design. A commercial-scale demonstration operation, rated at about 10 million gallons of esters and 1 million gallons of glycerin per year, was completed in early 1996, and serves as both a production operation and demonstration unit for the processing of various feedstocks. The process is straightforward, and does not rely on complicated or technically demanding methods to produce the fuel product. Inherent flexibility in the design allows the operator to accept a variety of feeds, thus increasing the attractiveness of the operation. The second method has an additional processing technique which eliminates the co-production of fatty acids.
Oil is treated to reduce the fatty acid and water content of the incoming feed.
While fatty acids have a variety of uses there may be instances wherein this co-product is not needed. Fatty acids produced in the basic process are further treated to convert them into usable feedstock for ester formation. We can provide a complete modularized plant which is shop fabricated, then shipped to the site for final assembly. This demonstrated technology is now available for license through our Biodiesel Technology Unit, and we stand ready to work with our Clients in a customer-centered approach.