Company Turning Biodiesel By-Product into Two Fuels
Gotta give props right up front to the readers of Domestic Fuel who passed along this story to us. What was a big waste product for the biodiesel industry could soon be fueling turbines and industrial boilers and offsetting coal use at power plants.
They found this story in Biodiesel Magazine about how Virginia-based Xcelplus Global Holdings Inc. is beginning commercial production of two fuels made from glycerin: GlyClene, for standard turbine engines and industrial boilers… and GlyCoal, to replace coal at power plants. Both are liquid fuels:
Crude glycerin directly out of the biodiesel process is the primary component of both GlyClene and GlyCoal. “We take 100 percent waste glycerin from a biodiesel plant, and we crack it, so the components are really all glycerin,” said Bill Smith, Xcelplus Global Holding’s chairman. The glycerin is treated with a chemical and thermal heat process to create the fuels. The chemical facilitating compound accounts for less than one percent of the formula, Smith continued. Patents are pending on the proprietary technology.
Xcelplus Global Holdings recently tested GlyClene as a boiler fuel source in Sony International’s Dothan, Ala.-based plant, Smith said. That test showed the fuel produced 119,000 British thermal units per gallon. Additional testing is pending at a variety of other facilities, including a chicken plant, a carpet company and an asphalt company. In addition, GlyCoal was recently tested at an 80 megawatt power plant in West Virginia. The fuel was injected directly into the boiler system, said Smith, and resulted in a 10 percent offset of the plant’s coal consumption.
And this story from EnergyCurrent.com says there is definitely a market for the fuel. Construction contractor Oldcastle Materials has entered into a contract to buy Glycoal and GlyClene, while poultry giant Perdue Farms will be buying GlyClene.
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Puppman
Xcelplus Global has released the White Paper on the test burns at the Edison Power Plant. Here is the link…
http://www.xcelplusglobal.com/documents/GlyCoal%20White%20paper.pdf
Puppman
XcelPlus Inaugurates Sales of Alternative Fuel GlyClene™ With First Delivery to Oldcastle Materials
TOPPING, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Alternative-fuels innovator XcelPlus Global Holdings (Pink Sheets:XPGH) has launched sales of its “green” fuel-oil supplement, GlyClene™, with the first deliveries scheduled for this week to an Alabama paving materials plant operated by Oldcastle Materials. According to XcelPlus President J. Michael Parsons, a long-term supply agreement between the two companies is pending positive results of additional tests, which are going on now to determine the long-term effects of GlyClene fuel on equipment used by Oldcastle.
XcelPlus Global’s GlyClene and GlyCoal are new alternative, renewable fuels produced with a proprietary process using waste byproducts from biodiesel production. As such, they qualify as “green” fuels for use to offset fossil fuel consumption and the carbon emissions resulting from burning fossil fuels. Oldcastle Materials intends to use GlyClene fuel supplement in its U.S. concrete kilns and asphalt plants.
Oldcastle Materials, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and a subsidiary of CRH, Dublin, Ireland, is the largest U.S. producer of asphalt paving materials and fifth largest producer of ready-mix concrete.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090317005230&newsLang=en
Puppman
Green Fuel GlyClene™ Turns Golden with Three-Million-Gallon Per Month Initial Open Order from Oldcastle Materials Inc.
TOPPING, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sales of GlyClene™, the renewable fuel made from biodiesel byproduct, have “ignited” with a contract to provide three million gallons per month to Oldcastle Materials Inc., the leading U.S. supplier of asphalt and ready mix concrete. Oldcastle will use GlyClene as a fuel-oil supplement to aid in compliance with government mandates to offset fossil-fuel consumption and carbon emissions with renewable fuels. Green fuel innovator XcelPlus Global Holdings Inc. (Pink Sheets: XPGH), maker of GlyClene, estimates the value of the contract at $40-60 million, depending on market conditions.
“We will begin deliveries before the end of March,” said J. Michael Parsons, president of XcelPlus. “Sales of GlyClene open a new chapter for biodiesel producers with an incentive to ramp up capacity. The revenue opportunity for byproducts creates another salable commodity for the industry’s portfolio.”
GlyClene, a renewable fuel-oil supplement, is one of two fuels XcelPlus produces from biodiesel byproducts using its Waste 2 Oil process. The other fuel, GlyCoal™, is a sulfur-free supplement for large industrial applications. Both qualify for fossil fuel and carbon emission offsets.
Oldcastle Inc., headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is a subsidiary of CRH plc (NYSE:CRH), Dublin, Ireland. The company has 1900 locations in the U.S. and Canada.
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