BEST BioDiesel Cashton Receives Permits for 8 Million Gallon BioDiesel Plant -- Cashton Facility to Create Clean Energy and Jobs
BEST BioDiesel Cashton, LLC, announced today it has received a construction and operating permit from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for an 8 million gallon B-100 fuel production facility. Site work and construction activities have begun and the excavation for footings and foundations are in progress. The facility is scheduled for completion by end of April, 2007, and to being commissioning in July, 2007.
Tackling Climate Change Head-on: World Biofuels Markets
Al Gore will address the World Biofuels Markets Congress & Exhibition on March 7th at the Brussls Expo, Belgium. This event is the leading Congress for the Global Biofuels industry. With governments eager to diversify their energy supplies and the increasing threat of climate change it is rare to have an industry experiencing such tremendous global growth. With new biorefineries springing up daily across the globe from Honduras, USA to India and Nigeria visitors from 50+ countries have already registered and the excitement is building.
Alternative Energy From Brewery Waste Produced by New Modular Ethanol Plant
Diversified Ethanol Corporation? has released a new product especially designed for breweries and microbreweries to convert their existing waste stream into salable high grade ethanol. Instead of paying for waste disposal, breweries can now turn their waste stream into a viable revenue stream, producing a valuable form of alternative energy, directly available to the local communities.
Information About Hybrid Cars
Hybrid cars are one of the most important advancements in travel technologies as they combine the benefits of both gas engines and electric motors to lower gas emissions and help the environment. Information about how hybrid cars work is freely available and there are different aspects that make hybrids popular. Finding out information about how hybrid cars work can help people make the choice to switch especially if they wish to gain the benefits of economizing fuel use, increased power and the ability to shut down the engine automatically while stopped in traffic.
Comparing Hybrid Cars With Regular Cars
Since man first figured out how to build and use a car, we?ve been used to driving round in cars that are powered by the internal combustion engine. There has really never been another viable alternative. But those times are changing. With the ever increasing media attention on green issues and the need to look after our planet, hybrid cars are slowly becoming integrated into our society. People are starting to compare hybrid cars to the more ordinary cars they have now, and they?re wondering if or when it?s worth making the change.
Hybrid Cars Feature Big Advantages
Is it any surprise that thousands of people have begun contemplating the advantages of hybrid cars Gas prices are forcing drivers to consider whether or not they should buy a hybrid
Don?t Forget To Wash (Your Biodiesel, That Is)
Some makers of biodiesel are satisfied to let their newly produced mixture simply sit untouched for about a week to allow the bulk of the soap residues settle to the bottom before running the product through a filter and into their fuel tank. But for a cleaner biodiesel that burns better, runs better, gets better mileage, and minimizes wear and tear on your engine, you may wish to consider taking this stage of the process a step further.
Alternative Energy From Waste Sugars Produced By New Modular Ethanol Plant
Diversified Ethanol Corporation(TM) will begin construction of a new facility for Master Recycling Center, Inc., in Pomona, California that will produce 5 million gallons per year of Ethanol. This new source of revenue is being produced from the millions of gallons per year of waste sugars currently being thrown away. Instead of pouring it down the drain, soft drink recyclers and breweries can now turn their "waste into gold".
Global Green USA Promotes Plug-in Hybrid, All Electric, and Alternative Fuel Vehicles for Oscars Drive: Stars Skipping Gas Guzzlers; Arriving in Ec
To shine the light on solutions to climate change and lend their star power to the problem of global warming, some of the world's biggest celebrities are choosing to arrive at the Academy Awards in 'green cars.' Instead of stretch limos or SUV's, they'll be arriving in eco-friendly hybrids, electric sports cars and other green vehicles. Celebrities and notable individuals participating this year include: Leonardo DiCaprio, Penelope Cruz, Forest Whitaker, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Ryan Gosling, Gwyneth Paltrow, Al and Tipper Gore, Melissa Etheridge, Davis Guggenheim and Elisabeth Shue, Larry and Laurie David, Lawrence Bender, Scott Z. Burns, Lesley Chilcott.
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Midwest Ethanol Plant Finds Unexpected $60/day Savings by Reusing Their Caustic
(PRWEB) March 16, 2006 -- A Midwest Ethanol plant reaped the rewards when they installed a Ronningen-Petter self-cleaning filter on their caustic based CIP (clean in place) system. Due to an increase in production, the customer saw soaring caustic usage costs. To make matters worse, in late 2005 caustic costs had increased 60 – 70% over what they were when the system was installed. Clearly, the customer had to find a way to reuse the caustic to bring their costs down to a manageable level.
Ethanol process:
As part of the ethanol production process, water, enzymes and corn are cooked and then combined in large fermentation tanks. When the fermentation part of the process is complete, these tanks are pumped out to the distillation system to separate the ethanol from the stillage, or by-product.
Because ethanol plants typically have many fermentation tanks the process is essentially continuous. The systems are optimized so that one tank is offline for cleaning every 1 - 4 hours. This allows the other tanks to be cleaned at some point along in the fermentation process.
This clean up is extremely important as it must take place in a very short time period -- typically less than one hour. It also must be done very efficiently to ensure a clean tank prior to refilling. If this is not done in the proper manner, costs escalate and product quality/safety are compromised.
Important: once contamination occurs, it is then necessary to stop the production line to determine where the infraction has occurred.
Situation:
To begin, the actual cleaning up of a fermentation tank is a three step process.
1. The tank is first drained prior to flushing. After the initial flushing, a drain is opened to allow the bulk of the solids to exit the tank.
2. The drain is then closed, and the wash water is recycled to completely flush the fermentation tank.
3. The final step is to flush the entire tank out with a 6–10% caustic stream to remove any leftover spent corn particles.
As the corn particles are collected in the caustic stream, they absorb a portion of the caustic so it becomes necessary for the ethanol plant to continuously monitor the strength of the caustic. Periodically, caustic is added through a caustic control valve to maintain peak cleaning efficiency.
Unfortunately, the spent particles in the system increased in proportions relative to the Ethanol plant's production increased. As the plant increased production, the consumption of the caustic was not accounted for, making the caustic addition rates fluctuate widely. This resulted in additional costs without necessarily benefiting the cleaning.
Ronningen-Petter Solution:
The Ethanol plant installed a Ronningen-Petter DCF-1600 Twin Self-Cleaning Industrial Filter on a recirculation loop off of the caustic make-down tank. Note: the filter could also have been sized to take the full flow from the make-down tank prior to the fermentation tanks if necessary.
The DCF filter was designed to run continuously, while the caustic solution was used intermittently when the fermentation tanks were flushed. Temperatures were typically in the 180° F range.
Interestingly, this particular Ethanol application can see high amounts of solids depending on the flushing loop and human error. The filter was able to handle the spikes of solids seen shortly after start-up of the caustic rinse loop, and was able to make it through upset conditions caused by improper valve sequencing.
Results:
Within the first week after the installation of the DCF-1600 Twin Self-Cleaning filter, caustic usage was stabilized and immediate savings were realized. After the first 60-days of operation the customer saw an average savings of $ 60.00 per day.
-- by Ask Filter Man
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