Oklahoma Cellulosic Diesel Facility Achieves D7 Q-RIN Status
by Ron Kotrba (Biomass Magazine) D7 renewable identification numbers (RINs) generated at a biorefinery in Oklahoma City producing cellulosic diesel fuel have been verified by Weaver and granted Q-RIN status. Weaver is an independent third-party auditor and U.S. EPA-approved RIN Quality Assurance Program provider whose QAP program is called RIN-tegrity.
The Envia Energy biorefinery, a joint venture between Waste Management, Ventech Engineers International LLC, NRG Energy Inc. and Velocys plc, began construction in 2015 and last October reached operational capacity of 200 barrels per day. The facility uses Velocys’ Fischer–Tropsch process and catalyst to convert landfill gas and natural gas into diesel fuel, naphtha and wax. Velocys intends to scale up the technology commercially validated in Oklahoma City sevenfold at a new project in Natchez, Mississippi, which is being designed to produce 20 MMgy from 1,000 dry tons of woody biomass per day.
According to Velocys, Envia Energy has signed a RIN purchase and sale agreement with TransMontaigne Product Services LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NGL Energy Partners, which will purchase, at a fixed price, all of the available RINs generated at the plant for a six-month term beginning in April. READ MORE
