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CWBiofuels was founded with one
goal: to produce the highest quality
biodiesel energy products in the U.S. CWBiofuels is a leader in the green energy
field in that our facilities are designed to utilize the most efficient and feedstock
flexible technology for our production rather than that used by all other
large-scale biodiesel producers in the U.S. Our technology can use any fat, oil and
grease and yield a cleaner, all weather, all temperature high performance product suitable for aviation fuel, on-road transportation, off-road use, power generation, home and commercial heating and marine use.
Initially, CWBiofuels will construct one 15 million gallon (annual) multi-feedstock, continuous flow biodiesel production plant in Western Massachusetts. This facility will produce biodiesel that exceeds U.S. and European quality standards and will utilize non-food feedstock such as filtered non-food-grade corn oil recovered from ethanol waste stream, RBD poultry fat and choice white grease.
CWBiofuels will rapidly expand its operations to a second Western Massachusetts site, where it will also produce 15 million gallons of biodiesel energy products. The two facilities will share one feedstock optimization (hydrolysis) process unit.
CWBiofuels is committed to being a positive force in the reduction of our nation’s
dependence on greenhouse gas producing, petroleum-based fuel for
transportation, energy production, home and commercial heating, marine use,
industrial and farm equipment and anywhere diesel fuel, home heating
oil or other petroleum-based products are used. CWBiofuels is committed to supporting our military in its quest to better provide for the men and women in our armed forces through the use of non-petroleum fuels. It is paramount that the fuels provided for their use be of the highest quality.
CWBiofuels is committed to providing highest product quality to our customers, providing a safe work environment for our workers and being a responsible corporate neighbor within our communities. We are committed to being a leader in the renewable energy industry.
We have decades of experience in double bottom line investing with both social and economic benefits, management and operations, financial management controls, manufacturing, quality assurance, product and process research and development.
What We DoCWBiofuel’s production relies on innovative technologies and processes developed by our world-renown technology partner that utilize non-food feedstock to make biodiesel that exceeds U.S. and European quality standards. By splitting our feedstock instead of stripping it down to its components, we can utilize the most cost effective feedstock available, which allows us to better manage our operating costs while maintaining product quality.
According to the American Petroleum Institute, U.S. Department of Energy and Canadian energy offices, one barrel holds 42 gallons of crude oil and produces slightly more than 44 gallons of petroleum products. The gain from processing is due to a natural expansion due to the processes that turn that one barrel into about 18.5 to 19.5 gallons of gasoline, 9.2 to 10.3 gallons of diesel, 4.1 gallons of jet fuel, 1.8 to 2.3 gallons of heating oil, and other petroleum products such as propane, asphalt, fertilizer and kerosene.
Just as ethanol can replace a portion of gasoline, biodiesel can
replace a portion of the diesel, fuel oil and bunker fuel produced
in each barrel of crude oil, thereby reducing greenhouse gases and particulate
matter emitted into our air and water. Regardless of the greenhouse gas/global warming naysayers, regardless of the petroleum industry reach into the politics in our nation's capital and/or in various statehouses, regardless of newly discovered deep water deposits of crude oil, renewable fuels have a role in our nation's future.
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EPA: 800 million gallons of biodiesel
The Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will require the domestic use of 800 million gallons of biodiesel in 2011.
This is consistent with the renewable goals established in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which expanded the Renewable Fuels Standard and specifically requires a renewable component in U.S. diesel fuel.
RFS2 provides specific volume requirements for advanced biofuels such as cellulosic biofuels, biomass-based diesel and undifferentiated advanced biofuels.
According to EPA, biodiesel produced from waste greases, animal fats and agricultural oils reduces greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 86 percent compared to petroleum diesel.
The RFS2 program, consistent with the EPA announcement, requires a minimum of 800 million gallons of biomass-based diesel, which included biodiesel, to be entered into the commercial marketplace in 2011.
"We applaud EPA for this announcement and for reaffirming the common-sense notion that we should displace petroleum diesel fuel with advanced biofuels like biodiesel," said Manning Feraci, vice president of federal affairs for the National Biodiesel Board.
China now world’s biggest energy user
"In 2008 [China] pushed oil prices to record highs, which helped tip the world into recession....China’s increased need for imports of coal and gas could eventually have a similar impact...."
By Carola Hoyos in London
Published: July 19 2010 17:51
China overtook the US last year to become the world’s biggest energy user, the International Energy Agency revealed on Monday.
Beijing’s new status is expected to make it even more influential in global energy markets, in determining prices and how it is used.
China clinched the top slot more quickly than had been expected because the US has over the past decade far outpaced China in using energy more efficiently. On a per capita basis, the US still uses far more energy than China and remains less efficient than Europe.
Fatih Birol, the IEA’s chief economist, said: “In the 2000, the US consumed twice as much energy as China, now China consumes more than the US.” He noted that the US had improved the efficiency with which it uses energy by 2.5 per cent annually during that time, while China managed only a 1.7 per cent annual improvement.
“On the one hand, the US has come to a certain saturation of energy use, but there have also been lots of efforts, especially since 2005, to use energy more efficiently,” he said.
China last year consumed 2,252m tons of oil equivalent of energy from sources including coal, oil, nuclear power, natural gas and hydropower, about 4 per cent more than the US, the rich countries’ watchdog said.
China’s growth has also not suffered the same setback as that of the US following the global financial crisis.
In 2008 it pushed oil prices to record highs, which helped tip the world into recession. Mr Birol said China’s increased need for imports of coal and gas could eventually have a similar impact.
A second big consequence of China’s growing heft as an energy consumer is that the country will thus increasingly determine how energy is used on a global scale – from the types of cars manufactured to the kinds of power plants built. This means China will also determine energy consumption patterns outside its boarders. “There will be a big multiplier effect,” Mr Birol said.
Though the IEA warned the data on China’s energy demand last year was still preliminary, the country’s ascendancy in energy use has been well established, with western policy makers fretting about issues such as Beijing’s agressiveness in seeking to secure oil from Kazakhstan to Sudan and to China’s growing carbon emissions.
China is already by far the world’s largest user of coal. Despite its own vast resources, its imports of thermal coal are expected to hit 105-115m tonnes this year, pushing it ahead of Japan as the world’s largest coal importer. Only three years ago China was a net coal exporter.
The trend has also been apparent in oil. Saudi Arabia, the world’s most important oil exporter, for the first time last year sold more oil to China than the US, which for decades had been its most important customer.
In March, Nobuo Tanaka, the IEA’s secretary-general, called on China to join the IEA, warning that the organisation, which represents the OECD’s largest energy consuming countries, risked losing its relevance otherwise.
Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2010.
April 22, 2010
GreenShift Corn Oil Extraction Patent Term Extended to 2028
In February 2010, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") published its estimate that 70% of the U.S. ethanol industry will use backend corn oil extraction technology to recover more than 66% of the available oil in corn ethanol co-products to fill 40% of America's biodiesel feedstock demand by 2022.
A conventional 100 million gallon per year ethanol producer produces about 360,000 tons per year of DDG that has a current market value of approximately $100 per ton. Locked within this DDG is about 36,000 tons per year of corn oil with a current gross market value of about $560 per ton. The ‘858 Patent discloses novel steps to unlock this value while reducing the energy costs of ethanol production. Extracting just 25% of the corn oil trapped in DDG would increase the profitability of GreenShift’s licensees by about $0.05 per gallon of ethanol produced at current market prices (net of royalty payments to GreenShift) – this equates to about $5,000,000 per year in increased profits for a 100 million gallon per year ethanol producer.
© 2010 Business Wire
