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Bio-Blend Fuels Inc. is a company producing bio-diesel from various materials including beef tallow and vegetable oil. They are based in Manitowoc, Wisconsin and have an annual capacity of 2.6 million US gallons. The company is notable for producing bio-diesel from pig fat recovered from commercial bacon production facilities.
The so-called "third-generation biofuels", similar to second-generation biofuels with an emphasize on the use of algae and cyanobacteria as a source of biofuel feedstocks, have an additional advantage as they take up a relatively small fraction of space when compared to first and second-generation biofuel sources, and may also help to reduce seawater eutrophication.
In 2006, Fuel Bio Opened the largest biodiesel manufacturing plant on the east coast of the United States in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Fuel Bio's operation is capable of producing a name plate capacity of 50 million US gallons per year (190 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /a) of biodiesel. [8] In 2008, ASTM published new Biodiesel Blend Specifications. [9]
Chevron Renewable Energy Group is “indefinitely idling” its biodiesel plants in Ralston and Madison, Wisconsin, Neville Fernandes, a Chevron vice president, said Thursday.
Czech production of biodiesel was already above 60,000 m³ per year by the early 1990s and is now even larger. Many of the plants are very large, including one in Olomouc which produces almost 40,000 m³ per year. From the summer of 2004, Czech producers of biodiesel for blend receive a subsidy of roughly CEK 9.50/kg.
For comparison, the total U.S. production capacity for biodiesel reached 2,240 million US gallons per year (8.5 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 /a) in 2007, although poor market conditions held 2007 production to about 450 million US gallons (1.7 × 10 ^ 6 m 3), according to the National Biodiesel Board (NBB).
Biodiesel represents the largest share of this (78%, far ahead of bioethanol with 22%). The unquestionable biodiesel leader in Europe is the French company Diester Industrie producing of 2 million tons of biodiesel. [18] In bioethanol, the French agro-industrial group Téréos is increasing its production capacities. Although France is bound by ...
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