Some pictures here of Kyoto City's biodiesel plant: http://www.e-revo.jp/new/sisetu-sinnsetu.html
Technology provided by Revo International (Japanese company), plant built by Hitachi Shipping company (official English name not known). The plant "can make" 5,000 litres of biodiesel a day. The construction cost was 751,000,000 yen, about US$7,500,000. We tested some biodiesel from Revo. Strong smell of methanol and the completion wasn't good. This project has been fueling one of the city's garbage truck fleets since 1999 I think and nothing else has happened. The biodiesel plant apparently runs at a profit made from guided tours of the plant. In Japan a small, 100-litre per day batch reactor costs anything from US$70,000 to about $200,000, flogged by various companies. They can't handle much FFA if any. Some have been sold but very few are used, they just stand there doing nothing. Where they are used the fuel is poor quality, usually poor completion. This is one reason Handmade Biodiesel a la Journey to Forever was such an unknown concept here in Japan, that anyone can make biodiesel and you can make the processor out of bits of junk. It's not unknown now though. Best wishes Keith _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
