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| Poultry Waste into Oil - status report |
| 2004-07-30 |
| A lot of Rantburgians have wanted to know the latest on this - basically, they are having scale-up engineering problems ....The latest target date for opening the Carthage plant is now this fall [04]. Engineers have already run the plant at capacity [200 tons/day]for as much as 12 hours at a time, and preliminary tests show the equipment works efficiently. Out of 100 Btus in a given unit of feedstock, only 15 Btus are used to power the process, with the remainder residing in oil, gas, and chemicals. Most important, the oil produced in these tests easily meets the specifications for diesel fuel... |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #5 Lets hope we can hook this up to a sewage plant. The signs would be great, "I gave a shit for oil independence!" |
| Posted by: Brutus 2004-07-30 9:42:55 PM |
| #4 If they could adapt that process to run on bullshit, the Democratic Party could power the entire nation. The French could add peaking capacity. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2004-07-30 8:32:34 PM |
| #3 My bet is that the cost of making this oil to a quality level that the EPA will approve for trucks or boilers will leave little room for profit compared to simply rendering the wastes into animal feed for which there is already a good market. So the economics won't justify the process until the price of oil skyrockets. The BSE argument is faulty: rendering destroys the BSE too. The Europeans had BSE problems because fuel is more expensive there so they did their rendering at lower temperatures than we do in the US. As a result, their rendering didn't reliably destroy the BSE. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-07-30 8:31:01 PM |
| #2 I'll bet it's crappy diesel though... ;^) |
| Posted by: Rtfm 2004-07-30 6:50:51 PM |
| #1 I they can scale this up efectively great. 30 to 40 bucks less going to the ass hats per barrel. Plus we can let the froggies buy the rights for 10 or 15 Dircksons |
| Posted by: cheaderhead 2004-07-30 6:06:36 PM |