Yellow Diesel - Biofuel From Rapeseed Without The Waste
Sunday, October 11, 2009 - 10:56
in Physics & Chemistry
A company called Yellow Diesel B.V. says they have succeeded in producing biodiesel in a continuous fixed-bed micro plant based on heterogeneous catalysis, which provides pure biodiesel plus a cosmetics/food grade glycerol with much lower waste streams. Their process eliminates all the aqueous waste streams that stem from using the conventional homogeneous acid/base catalyst technology. Combined with integrated process design, they claim the process saves up to 40% of the capital costs and 30% of the operating costs compared to a conventional plant. Yellow Diesel has produced the biodiesel in its continuous micro plant, and is now scaling up the process to pilot-scale. read more