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Mini Refiner Produces Ethanol And Biodiesel
By Mr Ethanol | November 5, 2008
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A Texas-based company has announced the “world’s first mini-refinery” for consumer use that can produce both ethanol and biodiesel from the same small machine at the same time. It’s capable of generating up to 120 gallons per day of ethanol and 450 gallons per day of biodiesel.
Consisting of two pieces of equipment — an ethanol boiler and the mini-refinery — the whole system can fit into an area of less than 30 square feet with 8 feet of clearance and is completely automated.
According to Adam Allard, President of Allard Research and Development, the EB120 ethanol boiler is their “core” product, acting as the “heart” of their systems. The AFS125 mini-refinery uses the boiler as part of its system, but the boiler and mini-refinery are sold separately.
As Allard says, “The boiler has a computer built-in, and that’s used for running boiler-specific tasks, as well as controlling the still. So although the boiler is sold also as a separate product, it would require an external distillation column, fermentation tanks, etc.”
The mini-refinery is computer touch screen controlled and features an Apple Mac Mini as its primary automation computer. When the boiler and the mini-refinery are used together, the Mac Mini also controls the boiler operation.
According to the Allard Research website, “The mini-refinery has 275, 60, 30, and 15-gallon tanks built in, and also comes with controls and ports for easy expansion to almost unlimited size. The computer includes built-in networking for both Ethernet and wireless 802.11. The system can be remotely controlled through the network, and multiple systems can be easily connected together to scale daily output capacity.” Read full post.
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November 5th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
What a great post! It is interesting to hear about new innovations like this “mini-refinery.” I think it’s another example of how easily ethanol can be part of our energy independence plan.
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Thanks!