Kelley Green Biofuels demos innovative methanol-recovery method in biodiesel production

In North Carolina, Kelley Green Biofuels presented an innovative approach to biodiesel production and methanol recovery at the 2014 Collective Biodiesel Conference this month in Pittsboro. With the technology, the company’s biodiesel exits the reactor containing 4-6% methanol by volume, at which point the fuel is sent through a flash drum which recovers up to 13 gallons of methanol for every 365 gallons of fuel. Company representatives Kristopher Kelley and Link Shumaker said developing a safe and reliable methanol recovery system proved much more complicated than developing the biodiesel reaction process.

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