Preparing For Duonix Biodiesel Plant Start-Up
by Doug Kennedy (KWBE) A biodiesel plant at the northwest edge of Beatrice is getting ready for the start of operations, by planning to do some testing procedures, soon. … Crews have been retrofitting the former Beatrice Biodiesel facility to use various materials for manufacturing biodiesel. …
According to Flint Hills website, the facility is a vertically-integrated biodiesel plant that will use a proprietary patented catalytic process for refining high free-fatty-acid feedstock, into biodiesel….working with a firm named Benefuel, Inc. READ MORE and MORE (Flint Hill Resources)
Excerpt from Flint Hill Resources: The technology is unique because it allows the use of lower cost, high free fatty acid (FFA) feedstocks such as animal tallow, unrefined oils, used vegetable oils or distillers corn oil—a coproduct of ethanol manufacturing—to produce high-quality biodiesel. This is accomplished through the use of a solid catalyst that combines esterification and transesterification into a single step, which has been a long-standing goal of the biodiesel industry. The process also ensures the final product meets or exceeds all domestic and European biodiesel standards. READ MORE