I've priced up Energea plant. I'm sure it's excellent quality kit, but with site, storage tanks and vehicles, it's only economic at 5T per hour running 2 shifts per day. A business plan can be worked around it, but it's a big eneterprise for a start-up industry.
I'm being told that in UK a methyl ester plant has to be treated like any other chemical plant. This means you need consulting engineers to design and build the plant with all the considerable set up costs that involves. £50,000 to £100,000 is being suggested for the design and feasability documentation alone :( plus who-knows-what to get it built to spec and quality assured for insurance. :( :( Can anybody confirm if this is realistic? We are talking about a methoxide mixer, oil reaction vessel, methanol recovery and associated pipes, pumps and controls. There must be loads of much higher rated used batch chemical plant that could do the job. All the other processes should be non hazardous - dewatering, washing etc. I don't want a dirty or dangerous plant, I just want something realistic that can expand with additional production modules as demand grows. Help!!! Biofuels at Journey to Forever http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel at WebConX http://www.webconx.com/2000/biofuel/biofuel.htm To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
