(428c) The Development and Commercialization of a Biodiesel Process Using Supercritical Fluid Methods
AIChE Annual Meeting
2011
2011 Annual Meeting
Process Development Division
Alternative Feedstocks for Energy and Chemicals
Wednesday, October 19, 2011 - 9:15am to 9:35am
Starting with high FFA waste feedstocks, a process was developed and scaled to commercial operations. This paper will survey the learnings of the effort by describing the chemical engineering techniques applied to solve the challenges presented to the team. The effort was successful in scaling the technology from bench (5 mls) to commercial. Many lessons were learned on the journey to producing and selling ASTM 6751 product for the market in truckload quantities.