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Aerojet, US Navy and biodiesel industries collaborate to develop renewable fuel system for military use

11 Aug 2009

Renewable fuels company Aerojet has collaborated with the US Navy and biodiesel industries to develop a system to produce cleaner and more reliable sources of renewable fuels for military use.

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Tags: aerospace, biodiesel, biofuel

One Response to “Aerojet, US Navy and biodiesel industries collaborate to develop renewable fuel system for military use”

A Baosman says:

12 October 2009 at 6:15 pm

Feedstock is not problem, right technology will lead biodisel industry. Plantation of Jatropha, pongamia, ect. is different sector and processing of biodiesel is different sector.In order to sustain biodiesel industry, the technology is very important which has the ability to handle multifeedstocks readily available, it will be better if it is locally available and cheap such as used oil, yellow grease, trap grease or any combination and still meets the ASTM standard to avoid harm the vehicles. As we all know there are Technology Issues. Conventional Biodiesel manufactured cost and quality are directly related to the type of technology employed in the process. All processes worldwide use similar technology and have restrictions on the type of oil to be used. For example, base catalysis systems can only use high grade, high cost oils that are very low in free fats. This restriction allows manufacturers to develop their own process technology based on hundreds of years of experience. This is the basic soap manufacturing process and has the lowest capital cost, typically which is still in millions of dollars for a small plant. Typical operating costs are $0.50 to $0.80 per gallon. A typical yield from this plant operation is 93 – 95%. These operations require either water washing stages or ion exchange for waterless fuel contaminate process cleanup after reaction. Most States heavily monitor water discharges from Biodiesel plants, and most of these have converted to waterless technologies. Ion exchange is a costly process and adds cost per gallon, depending on product quality. Low yield, high costs, and limited oil type used by these processes will eliminate them from the market in the near future.
The second level of technology capable of utilizing lower cost oils but requires a costly two step process, acid/base catalysis. Yield is low but it can convert low cost oils into biodiesel. The down side, plants cost twice as much as a base catalysis technology and are very complicated systems. A typical yield from this plant operation is 85% or less.

Contrary to this GAF (Georgia Alternative Fuels) has developed with years of research and development Heterogeneous catalytic system that can handle efficiently with minimum dose of chemical catalyst to handle any comination of feedstock irrespective of whatever FFA contents in the oil. In fact, higher FFA is better for higher btu value in biodiesel.GAF’s technology is capable of efficiently processing lower cost oils while maintaining high quality meeting ASTM standard is a market opportunity that few in the world today is used as an advantage.
GAF’s Technical Advantages;
• Lowest capital cost, about 1/3 less than competitors
• Lowest operating cost
• Highest quality
• Highest yield, approximately 27% better than competition

Any body is interested may contact us for further details.
ahmed_baosman@hotmail.com
Dr. A Baosman
http://www.gafbiofuels.com