Green Star Products biodiesel reactors make biodiesel in two minutes
Green Star Products, Inc. has just a quick announcement today: their advanced biodiesel reactor can process vegetable oil, methanol and the catalyst into biodiesel in just two minutes, compared to the average industrial time of 60-90 minutes. The new reactors will come in three sizes and have been developed in secrecy for the past year. GSPI's largest of these new reactors is rated at 10 million gallons per year capacity and will cost $30,000. Even the plants using these new biodiesel reactors can now be made quicker. Gold Star estimates it will take 14-18 weeks instead of the same number of months to build biodiesel plants now. The company has been using their Continuous Flow Biodiesel Production technology systems for a few years and, because the systems are contained and waterless, it should be easier for biodiesel producers to obtain permits to build plants that use the two technologies in conjunction, the company says.
[Source: TransWorldNews]
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TDI_Driver_Found 8:31PM (5/24/2006)
If it's waterless how do they wash the biodiesel to get the lye out?
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Timon 3:57AM (5/25/2006)
The new reactors operated for 14 months in Bakersfield under secrecy for security reasons. Only a handful of prospective technical and financial parties were invited to tour the plant at Bakersfield (under non-disclosure agreements).
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BioDaddy 10:49AM (5/26/2006)
Is this the same biodiesel plant that blew up a few months back?
As for this apparent technological "breakthrough," given all the bio-hype that seems like you can never avoid out there anymore and which raises consumer expectations way too high, take press releases and related information with more than a grain of salt.
Most of this is far too good to be true.
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