SBIR Phase I: Heterogeneous Catalyst Technology for the Economical Production of Biodiesel from High FFA Feedstocks

这个SBIR一期项目将从低等级脂质来源而不是食品级来源生产生物柴油。此外，该项目的另一个目标是寻找一种替代现有催化剂技术的方法，该技术可以采用更便宜和简化的生产过程。该项目的更广泛/商业影响将是从废物（棕色油脂）和副产品中捕获生物燃料。提出的生物柴油催化剂技术显示出同时使用低成本原料和大大简化生物柴油生产过程以实现成本节约的潜力。有了这些节省下来的成本，经过改造，目前闲置的设施可以生产低于石油柴油价格的生物柴油，这将有助于满足预计到2012年全球市场对60亿加仑生物柴油的需求。

This SBIR Phase I project will produce biodiesel from low grade lipid sources rather than food grade sources. In addition, the project also has the goal of finding an alternative to currently installed catalyst technology that can employ a less expensive and simplified production process.The broader/commercial impact of the project will be to capture a bio-fuel from waste products (brown grease) and by-products. The proposed biodiesel catalyst technology shows potential to simultaneously use low cost feedstocks and to greatly simplify the biodiesel production process to achieve cost savings. With these cost savings, retrofitted, currently idled facilities could produce biodiesel fuel below petroleum diesel prices which would help meet the anticipated global market demand of 6 billion gallons of biodiesel by 2012.