Keith, Just out of sheer curiosity, where does the information that "Most biodiesel in the US is soy biodiesel" come from?
I was wondering too, since I cannot find the information even on the NBB (unless I am blind which is never outside the realm of possibility), where might be a good source to look for a list of currently operating biodiesel plant? Ours closed and is in bankruptcy and of the other two in the local area, only one is operating. We couldn't compete even switching to animal fats - and all those inherent processing problems. Of course, the one operating is big-bucks AGP and, yes, uses soy. Hmmm. D'ya think I might have sort of answered my own question here? Although I will say there is a soybean processing coop south of here that ceased production of biodiesel in their facility for at least 6 months last I heard. They sold their soybean oil to AGP during that period. Sigh. Thanks so much! Denise On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Most biodiesel in the US is soy biodiesel, which doesn't need high > pressure to oxidise and polymerise, it's a semi-drying oil, it'll > polymerise anyway. The IV is well above the EU biodiesel standard > upper limit. (See "Iodine Values" > <http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield.html#iodine>, "National > standards for biodiesel > <http://journeytoforever.org/biodiesel_yield2.html#biodstds>.) The > biodiesel industry in the US seems to be more are less in denial > about this, but then the US National Biodiesel Board is a creature of > US Big Soy. > > Hm, I must check how the US-EU row over the US dumping cheap soy > biodiesel on the EU market is progressing. IIRC last time I looked > the US was accusing the EU of protectionism, on the basis of what > sounded like GMO-style "substantial equivalence" of America's soy and > Europe's rapeseed oil, though they're not equivalent when it comes to > iodine values and polymerisation. Rapeseed oil has a much lower IV > and is much less likely to polymerise. Nonetheless, a lot of > Europeans use anti-oxidant with their biodiesel, while very little > anti-oxidant is used in the US, by contrast. Also, in the US most > biodiesel is the NBB's commercial B20, a low blend with a lower risk > of polymerisation, so they have to care about it that much less. > > They're never going to accept that soy could be anything less than > ideal. I get the impression that, even if there is such a thing, > high-pressure polymerisation could be just a convenient scapegoat for > soy's shortcomings. > > Best > > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/attachments/20091017/f1fa8762/attachment.html _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
