Safer Energy, Biodiesel Plant, 2012, 40 MGY Capacity, Soybean Oil Feedstock, Allen Bradley SCADA

Description

  1. Overview
    1. Biodiesel plant nameplate rated at 40 million gallons per year (40 MGY)
    2. Designed and built by Safer Energy LLC
    3. Construction from 2007 to 2010
    4. Produced intermittently in 2011, 2012, 2013
    5. Idled in 2013
    6. Built for degummed soybean oil as feedstock
  2. Specifications
    1. Nameplate capacity: 40 million gallons per year (40 MGY)
    2. Production runs at rate of 70 gpm (36 MGY based on 335 day year)
    3. Improvements to water separation and addition of two Alfa-Laval centrifuges should take it to nameplate capacity
    4. All automatic operation (only 3 men/shift total) utilizing Allen Bradley Logix plc on a SCADA system
  3. Infrastructure
    1. One pipeline already built to docks for barge traffic
    2. Can handle 100 car unit trains if needed on main dead-end track
    3. Convenient to I-40, I-55, and the Memphis-Little Rock gateway
    4. Includes 38.2 acres
  4. Included Equipment
    1. Tanks
    2. Lab
    3. Buildings
    4. All utilities: boiler, chillers, cooling tower, air compressors
  5. Condition
    1. Idled in 2013
    2. Complete information regarding operation is available in our Virtual Data Room (VDR)