Biofuels Continued from page 22 Firms Deliver Biodiesel to Africa Incbio, a Portuguese engineering company specializing in fully automated industrial ultrasonic biodiesel plants, has delivered an 8,000 metric ton (2.4 million gallons) per year biodiesel plant to Biokast Energy S.A., in Tunis, Tunisia, a small country in South Africa. Due to its skidded construction, the plant is fully built prior to shipping and requires minimal assembly once onsite, usually taking less than one week from arrival to startup. The plant uses Incbio’s ultrasonic reactors to produce biodiesel from used cooking oil collected from restaurants in Tunis. Meanwhile, Florida Biodiesel, Inc. has completed a biodiesel plant sale to the Lorymat Corporation, Ivory Coast, Africa, which will process palm oil and locally collected used cooking oil into biodiesel. The production equipment is capable of producing 9,000 gallons of biodiesel daily and will be used as a hands-on educational tool to show students and government agencies how to make renewable energy on the Ivory Coast. French Hub Switches to Biodiesel Reports are that the Dépôt pétrolier de Port-La-Nouvelle (DPPLN) storage terminal located between Montpellier, France, and Barcelona, Spain, is converting from oil to biodiesel, becoming France’s first dedicated biodiesel hub on the Mediterranean coast. The news came just days after an announcement that European countries will increase solid biofuel imports to 50 million to 80 million metric tons (13 billion to 21 billion gallons) by 2020. The DPPLN terminal is a 45,000 cubic metric facility consisting of 10 tanks and two jetties capable of reception, storage, and distribution of biofuels and vegetable oils that will continue to offer blending and mixing capabilities. Ontario Issues Biodiesel Mandate The Canadian province of Ontario has introduced new “greener diesel” rules to improve air quality by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The rules went into effect April 1, 2014, and will be phased in over three years, so by 2017, the amount of biofuel blended into regular diesel will average at least four percent. Greenhouse gases must be reduced by at least 30 percent this year and 70 percent by 2017, for the biofuel portion of the new blend. Ontario’s greener diesel is a blend of petroleum diesel and renewable biofuel made from feedstocks such as canola and soy oils, animal fats, and recycled cooking oils. By 2017, Ontario’s greener diesel approach is expected to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 600,000 metric tons a year – equivalent to taking 140,000 cars off the road. Home heating oils and aviation fuel are exempt from the new rules and northern Ontario will be exempt until 2017. R 24 June 2014 Render www.rendermagazine.com
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