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The Mcgyan Process:
A Continuous Biodiesel Production Process from Inexpensive Feedstocks
(Anoka, MN) – (August 22, 2007) Ever Cat Fuels, LLC announced today its intention to build a 3 million gallons per day biodiesel production facility in Isanti, MN that uses a revolutionary process of biodiesel production dubbed the “Mcgyan Process,” after its inventors, Dr. Clayton McNeff, Dr. Arlin Gyberg and Dr. Bingwen Yan.
The process was developed by a sister company, SarTec Corporation, also located in Anoka Minnesota. SarTec has developed a patent pending process for continuous biodiesel production that involves the chemical reaction of a lipid source (e.g. algae oil, yellow grease, animal tallow, or acidulated soapstock) and alcohol through a reactor that produces biodiesel with no waste streams, unlike the state of the art methods that use large amounts of corrosive chemicals, produce large amounts of salts and which are water intensive.
The Mcgyan process catalyzes the conversion to yield pure biodiesel with no waste products. Biodiesel is renewable fuel for diesel engines derived from natural oils like soybean oil, and which meets the specifications of ASTM D 6751. Biodiesel is readily biodegradable and nontoxic. Glycerin is a byproduct of biodiesel production that can be refined and is commonly used in foods, beverages, medicines, and personal care products.
Dr. Clayton McNeff, the Vice President of Research at SarTec and Chief Science Officer of Ever Cat Fuels, explains, “the chemical process of producing biodiesel is achieved by the combination of a triglyceride or free fatty acid with an alcohol to produce biodiesel and some benign byproducts. The traditional large-scale production of biodiesel is achieved by a base-catalyzed transesterification reaction that uses methanol, sodium hydroxide and a triglyceride source such as virgin soybean oil. There are a number of caveats to the current process including unwanted side reactions with free fatty acids to produce soaps, and numerous water-intensive neutralization and fuel washing steps. The Mcgyan process overcomes almost all of these issues and allows for the ultra fast continuous production of biodiesel without waste and unwanted glycerol byproducts.
In fact when acidulated soapstock is used as a feedstock the byproduct is water. Since the reactor catalyzes both transesterification and esterification reactions simultaneously, oils with high levels of free fatty acids can be converted to biodiesel, which means that very inexpensive feedstocks can be used.
Furthermore, the process is so clean that in theory it could be used to supply fuel a diesel engine directly and can be implemented via mobile units at the farm-level.” Larry McNeff, President of SarTec and Chief Manager of Ever Cat Fuels notes that, “One of the largest roadblocks to the use of alternative fuels is the change of performance noticed by end users. Biodiesel has many positive attributes such as lowering our dependence upon foreign oil, being environmentally friendly with no additional green house gas emissions and being renewable, but by far the most noted attribute is the similar operating performance to conventional petroleum diesel fuel and the fact that it can be blended with petroleum diesel in any proportion and run in any diesel engine.
The Mcgyan process is completely scalable from farm sized reactors all the way to industrial scale. The Mcgyan Process when combined with vast sources of renewable lipids like oil produced from algae, offers a way to meet our growing
energy demands and yet be a responsible steward of the environment.”
About SarTec Corporation
SarTec Corporation is a privately held company founded in 1983 and based in Anoka, Minnesota. SarTec manufactures a wide variety of natural plant derived saponin based products for the agricultural industry and an automatic lawn fertilization system for the lawn care industry. About Ever Cat Fuels, LLC Ever Cat Fuels, LLC is a privately held limited liability corporation founded in 2006 and based in Anoka, Minnesota. Ever Cat Fuels intends to build and operate a first of its kind biodiesel production facility located in Isanti, MN that uses the patent pending “Mcgyan” process.
4 comments:
a rendering plant is a rendering plant..
true but this is not a rendering plant....this is a biodiesel plant...
why do you think it is a rendering plant...
This is going to be a great way to produce an alternative energy source.
Am I going to be able to buy D100 any where in Isanti after production is up and running? Will there be more service stations selling than Westroms?
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