Our pretreatment process, the front end and the complete plant have been designed by Hammerhead Engineering to Todays Alternative Energy (TAEC) specifications. All of the TAEC processing facilities to be built will have the significant advantage of being modular. This means they will have lower operating costs due to building out the right size plants. Being modular and integrating components in parallel provides redundancy and mitigates interruptions for maintenance and individual part failure.

A Typical Mid-Sized Bio-Diesel Plant

We are designing our mid-sized standard plant to produce 1.5 – 5.00 million gallons of B100 bio-diesel per year depending on the areas availability of the areas brown grease supplies. Our estimates are there are between 50 – 60 SMSA areas in the United States which can support our facilities.

 

 

An Example of Bio-Extractors

Bio-Extractors are used in parallel to separate LBTG from liquid brown water, collecting the food solids for dewatering and redirecting the waste water to pre-treatment equipment. Typically, 15% of liquid delivered by hauler is LBTG and the remaining 85% is water and food solids.

 

 

An Example of Bio-Converter Units

We plan on using for the back end production of the bio diesel proven Bio-Converter units. Bio-Converter units operate in a continuous batch mode using the collect LBTG as feedstock to produce biodiesel and glycerin by-product.

- model 400 produces 100 gallons of B100 per hour
- model 800 produces 200 gallons of B100 per hour
- model 1600 produces 400 gallons of B100 per hour
- model 2400 produces 600 gallons of B100 per hour

 

Example of Storage Tanks

Storage tanks are used for the holding and storing of LBTG, methanol, sodium hydroxide, B100 and glycerin.

The number, sizes and orientation of the tanks is associated with the location, space and output volumes

 

 

Example Centrifuge

Centrifuges speed up the process of separating grease and any other impurities in the B100.

 

 

 

Example of Washing and Polishing Equipment

B100 needs to be washed and polished to ensure it meets ASTM standards in removing impurities and excess lye and prevent engine damage. The number of washing and polishing cylinders are matched to the production output.