4.5 Mgy soy biodiesel plant to open in Arkansas
Submitted by Biofuels Digest Blog
In Arkansas, the 4.5 Mgy Arkansas SoyEnergy Group soy-based biodiesel plant will open near DeWitt today. The company will expand productino capacity to 7 Mgy in a second phase of construction. The plant will be the first in Arkansas with its own soy-crushing capability.
Arkansas has been noted, to date, more for its development of animal fat-based biofuels. Researchers at the University of Arkansas recently developed a new, fast process for biodiesel that has recorded yields of more than 90 percent using chicken fat and converted tall oil fatty acids. The latter is a by-product of the wood-pulping industry. Use of the low-cost feedstocks had been previously limited by long reaction times, and the amount of methanol required by conventional processes.
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