You mentioned a couple of manufacturers of biodiesel plants, Each seeking continuous production and capacity for at least 10,000 gal day. Here's another: www.petrobio.com.br They are asking me 2 million REAIS (divide by 2.34 for the dollar value) for a 30,000 litre processing system that is very efficient in that it removes water through centrifuge, instead of decantation.
Hope this helped. Adrian Message: 3 Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 13:36:35 -0500 From: "Lamar Lott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [Biofuel] Commercial Biodiesel To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" thanks for answering Todd's question. But after making Biodiesel lab-style numerous times with several feed stocks, I'm at an absolute loss as to how any of this could possibly cost a million dollars. Physically separating water, washing and drying tanks, numerous pumps and smaller tanks with some heat exchangers-seems like a 4,000 gallon reactor ought to make 10,000 gallons a week. Put several batch reactors together linearly and it sounds continuous. Are the permits and regulations what cost so much? I've heard no question is stupid but I'm feeling it! Lamar -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Keith Addison Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 1:03 PM To: Biofuel@sustainablelists.org Subject: Re: [Biofuel] Commercial Biodiesel Hello Todd >I am seriously working on developing a commercial large scale bio >diesel plant and am at the very early stages. at this point I am >sourcing large scale biodiesel systems. I need your help-Is one system >better than amnother? ie. Cost , output, system config etc. I am >lookign for the overall best company that offers a great price and a >good product. I am looking at a minimum output of 5 million gallons per >year. i have sourced two companies so far-continuous flow batch systems >and one company is asking $5 million and the other is asking $1.5 >Million-a huge difference and I am now looking for help from all >members. Recommendations? Can I set up my own plant of this scale that >could meet all government standards for much less? >Todd Wootton These are the best systems, by all accounts: ENERGEA -- The next generation of biodiesel technology -- CTER "Continuous Trans Esterification Reactor" technology opens a new chapter in biodiesel production: up to 50% lower cost of investment, turn-key modules the size of a container, multi-feed-stock technology, production capacity 5000 to 100,000 mt/a or more, high quality fuel according to EN 14214 standard. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.energea.at/ Biodiesel Technologies GmbH, Vienna, Austria -- Compact biodiesel manufacturing plants installed in a 20-ft container frame, ready to operate, multi-feedstock re-esterification, with final conditioning of biodiesel. Product range: CPU and FRU unit (with 500 and 1000 litres per hour capacity) and IPU 1200 unit (with 1200 litres per hour capacity). Contact: Dr. L. Kondor, Marketing Director, 1130 Vienna, Austria, Hietzinger Hauptstrasse 50. tel. + 43 1 877 0553, fax: + 43 1 877 8446, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.biodieseltechnologies.com BioDiesel International of Austria uses re-esterification in its multi-feedstock production system to handle fresh plant oils and/or waste cooking oils and/or animal fats and/or animal fats and fatty acids (as much as 20%), with no loss of free fatty acids, 0% wastes, 0% waste water and no disposal costs, resulting in pure biodiesel plus glycerine (for use in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries) plus a solid fertilizer for agricultural use (potassium phosphate). Yield is 100%: 1 kg of raw material makes 1 kg of high-quality biodiesel. http://www.biodiesel-intl.com All Austrian. Austria has been way out in front with biodiesel for 25 years. Your scheme might be a bit small though. Camillo Holecek of ENERGEA told me it's not economically viable for plants with capacity lower than about 20,000 metric tonnes a year, which is about 60 million US gallons. Still, why not ask? Best wishes Keith -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/55 - Release Date: 7/21/2005 _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
