No kiddin' - U.S.'s largest biodiesel refinery will be in Texas (Houston)
While the Midwest is ethanol production territory, biodiesel in America is a little more mobile. Sure, there are Midwest biodiesel plants, but we also find them in Texas, Louisiana, Oregon and other places. But no one is going to have a larger biodiesel refinery than Houston, Texas, where GreenHunter BioFuels has just gotten the permits it needs to build the "Country's Largest Biodiesel Refinery" (I wish we had a carnival lights font for that). The new refinery, capable of making 105 million gallons of the biofuel a year, will be located on the site of the old Channel Refining Corporation waste oil/chemical refinery near Galena Park at the Houston Ship Channel. GreenHunter is converting this facility and will also build a methanol distillation plant on the site. GreenHunter's permit allows it to use variable feedstocks (soy bean oil, palm oil, jatropha oil and/or animal/poultry fats) from domestic or international sources. Since the "new" plant will be converted from the old one, GreenHunter expects to be producing fuel by March 2008.
[Source: GreenHunter Energy, Inc.]
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clint 5:59PM (4/17/2008)
Possibly, but if you count Jatropha curcas, the largest for the US will be further south in south texas. As it needs no refining. just filtration and into the tank it goes. I am looking for more land in south texas to raise more jatropha. the only problem i am running into is the price of the land. anywhere between 10 and 37K per acre is way too expensive for simple ranch land with degraded soil.
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James Himes 1:15PM (5/21/2009)
FLA Tampa bay .
I have been informed that Hunter Green is in the stages of building a jatropha prosessing plant in fla. at black point on tampa bay. Is this true.
Second there is currently lots of idle farm land in the area that can be bought or leased with a buy clause in the contract.
Third I have fifty acres that I am reasonably interested in planting this tree on ,for lease same to someone to produce same, with a buy clause in the contract .
james himes sr.
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