The organization that represents Ontario’s grain and oilseeds farmers predicts provincial soybean growers will benefit from a newly completed biodiesel production plant in Welland Ontario.
Taking up over 16 acres, the Welland facility is the largest of its kind in Canada, and is owned and operated by Toronto based Great Lakes Biodiesel Inc (GLB). According to GLB’s website, the plant has a storage capacity of 8.5 million litres and can produce 170 million litres of fuel every year. The size of its terminal means it will have the capacity to ship 12 to 14 rail cars per day, the website says.
To make this biodiesel, the company will be source a significant portion of its feedstock from processors who use mainly Ontario grown soybeans, says Meghan Burke, Grain Farmers of Ontario's communications coordinator. The remainder will come largely from canola.
The finished facility comes after a federal mandate in July of 2011, which required that all diesel fuel contain two per cent biodiesel. GLB states on its website that it hopes the facility will supply a "significant percentage" of the biodiesel required by the mandate.
The company further notes that by locating the facility in Welland, it can use both rail and roadways.
"GFO continues to support novel new uses for Ontario Grain," says Burke. "Our organization actively works with other stakeholders, like Soy20/20, to establish new market opportunities for Ontario grains." BF
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A study lately concluded that bio diesel had more bad environment effects than conventional diesel . Let's hope that studies or mandates are done for the right reasons and not a political mandate. The western Canada bio oil in winter has too be exported too US and bio oil imported as there bio oil is too heavy of a viscosity to operate in cold weather . I will try too add the web link later-kg kimball
Would be interesting to see . Please post .
http://www.biodiesel.org/reports/20090201_gen394.pdf
"Conclusion
Overall, an increase in the amount of biodiesel blended into the ULSD correlated to an increase
in the lubricity of the fuel. All of these bio-blends decreased the lubricity standard of the fuel to
within specifications. It was shown by this study that biodiesel can not only be comparable to
lubricity additives but in most cases biodiesel blends can be an improvement over the lubricity
effects of commercial additives. This was true with both in-specification and out of specification
biodiesel, as several of the commercial biodiesel samples analyzed for this project did not meet
D6751 specifications. Using biodiesel in place of lubricity additives could be a cost-effective
and environmentally responsible way to achieve excellent lubricity in ULSD fuels. Biodiesel is
also a way to support our internal fuel economy, as well as the agricultural community
responsible for producing bio-fuels."
In a nutshell 2% biodiesel sure beats premature replacement of expensive injection pumps!!
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