Projects
Development Facility
The Renewable Fuel Products
test facility is located at The BECON Center in Nevada, Iowa with chemical
analysis done at Iowa State University.
http://www.energy.iastate.edu/BECON/ 
History We
started at the University of California at Davis in 2007, with the test
reactor located in the biomass laboratory. The first pilot scale
reactor was installed at UC Davis and run under the direction of
Professor Brian Jenkins until we moved to Marina and Stanford
University. We
built a full scale reactor and installed it at a test facility in
Marina, Northern California, and we completed a 12 month long test
program at Stanford University. Professor Tom Jaramillo
characterized various finished products produced by the reactor to
determine feedstock suitability for processing by the Renewable Fuel
Product reactor into a finished fuel product. In
2010 we moved to Iowa to set up at the BECON Center, with our test lab
at Iowa State University (ISU) and fuel analysis work done in Ft. Dodge
by the Iowa Fuel Laboratory.
Algae Biomass
The Renewable Fuel
Product reactor is small scale, low cost, and is not sensitive to water
content. Additionally, there is no preference for high FFA content oil
and its catalyst free operation eliminates the need for external inputs.
The Renewable Fuel
Products’ reactor does not suffer the finished product infrastructure
challenges facing Biodiesel or the hydrogen and feedstock challenges
facing renewable diesel produced in traditional oil refineries.These features make the reactor an ideal compliment for all but the very
largest algae biomass production facility. Renewable Fuel Products
is collaborating with Carbon Capture Corporation (CCC) at their Imperial
Valley facility, in order to secure the algae biomass necessary for
their joint effort on an algae biomass-to-fuel research program.
The Carbon Capture
Corporation facility provides approximately 8 million gallons of pond
capacity and currently produces four algae strains used by Carbon
Capture Corporation for its research needs. These ponds represent the
largest open pond algae biomass research facility in the USA.
Algal Biomass
Consortium
Renewable Fuel Products
is a member of Algal Biofuels Consortium ("ABC"). ABC was created in
2008 under the leadership of Sandia National Laboratories in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. ABC aims at providing a formal structure for a
public/private partnership focused on addressing the continuing
challenges in developing scalable algal biofuels.
Planning committee
members include Sandia National Laboratories, Carbon Capture
Corporation, New Mexico State University, Arizona State University,
NASA-Ames, University of Hawaii, the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, DOE Office of the Biomass Program, MRI – MidAtlantic
Corporation, Solix Biofuels, UOP, Cargill, and the University of Texas.
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