Hi to all,
Question to Dick Carlstein:
You deliver two plants for 800 litres of BD per day, do you ?
1) What are the initial costs per plant ?
I have here the offer from Polish producer (for rapeseed oil
esterification) for the batch
400litres/day at say US $ 11,000 (eleven thousand dollars).
2) What are the running costs:
- sunflower oil (Poland rapeseed oil is about US $ 700/tonne - derived
from the prices of
rapeseed)
- methanol ??? (or ethanol), Poland: 791 $/tonne (0,76 kg/liter is the
density of methanol,
ethanol: 4cents/liter)
- KOH ??? (Poland 19-to 21 $/25 kg )
- electricity ??? (Poland 5cents/kWhr)
3. What are the revenue sources and their prices?
- biodiesel (Poland - nobody knows yet, Petrol diesel cost US $
440/tonne is the wholesale
price),
- glycerine ???? (Poland - I do not know yet
- leftovers from rapeseed sold to farmers as fodder ??? do not know yet
(applies only when the BD producers gets rapeseed as the raw material)
One very important remark: One can buy rapeseed and other oils at the agrarian
stock exchange
in Rotterdam for example.
Prices are (more or less)
rapeseed oil 400 to 430 Euro/tonne (three months delivery)
coconut oil 355 Euro/tonne
sunflower oil : ????
Other remark:
>From my rough analysis (I am doing it for my to-be installation) it goes that
>the most important
factor for BD production to be profitable is ( I want to sell it for profit) :
the cost of getting oil whatever it is (sunflower, rapeseed or coconut etc.)
In case of my country this price or cost of oil should not exceed US$ 400/tonne.
Any comments ????
Last question to Ken:
What do you mean by economic quantity of biodiesel ???
jan sur—wka
to-be producer and seller of rapeseed derived biodiesel
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