|
Conroe, Texas Turbine Project |
|
|
 BIOFUELS POWER CORPORATION COMMISSIONS WORLD’S LARGEST BIOFUELED POWER PLANT Biofuels Power has commissioned a second power plant consisting of a GE Frame 5 turbine generator fueled by 100% biodiesel. This unit produces up to 10 MegaWatts of baseload electricity to the Entergy power grid. The Entergy grid connects the eastern portion of Texas and over 4 million Louisiana customers. This turbine project is fueled by pipeline from the Safe Renewables refinery with up to 1 million gallons of biodiesel per month. Further expansion includes the addition of a steam unit which will increase total power production of up to 25 MegaWatts.
| | |  | The Southwest Biofuels Initiative has begun a program to test various biofuels produced from a variety of feedstocks to determine the grade and quality of fuel produced as well as the yield and ease of production from these raw materials. Feedstocks to be tested include vegetable oils, animal tallow and waste oils from restaurant and water treatment sources. | | | |  | SWBI has developed a biofuels manufacturing plant near the Houston Advanced Research Center (HARC) in The Woodlands, Texas. This facility has a small biodiesel blending lab with a unique microwave de-emulsifying unit attached. This unit can make samples of biofuel in small quantities (up to 50-gallon batches) under identical conditions so that these can be evaluated for quality and comparison parameters as a fuel.
| | | |  | One goal of the Feedstock Initiative is to evaluate the efficacy of growing vegetable feedstocks throughout the arid regions of the southwestern United States that could be used to support a renewable energy program of using biodiesel in transportation and power generation. This could greatly reduce emissions from hydrocarbons and other fuel use. Biodiesel use in Europe is more than quadruple that of the U.S. and this project can show the efficacy of biofuel power generation.
| |
