| So what's in it for the farmers?
Texas BioDiesel processing facilities help put agricultural producers at the center of the energy industry. The use of agricultural feedstock for biodiesel production gives crop producers the opportunity to:
- Profit from new advances in biodiesel production technology
- Raise a larger variety of crops
- Raise more profitable crops
- Contribute to national energy security
- Use agricultural know-how to provide energy to the nation
Every facility Texas BioDiesel develops will allow for 20% investment into the facility by the local community.
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Ideal Crops
Any crop that can be used to produce seed oil, even as waste, can be used with the solid catalyst production process, exclusive to Texas BioDiesel, to produce biodiesel. Ideal crops include:
- Spicy mustard
- Sunflowers
- Soybeans
- Rapeseed (potential winter crop in the southern U.S.)
- Palm
- Castor bean
- Cottonseed
Production Facilities
Texas BioDiesel Corporation collaborates
with EnviroQuest Research Corporation, El Campo City Development
Corporation, Wharton
County, Wood County Economic Development, Houston Economic
Development, Harris County Economic Development, the Greater
Houston Partnership, Prairie View A&M University, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Idaho National Laboratory (INL),
and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Texas BioDiesel will build and operate biofuel production and
technology facilities domestically and internationally.
There are three 30-million-gallon-a-year biodiesel fuel
production-electricity cogeneration facilities and ethanol
facilities in Phase I of the "Winds of Change"
Sustainable Economic Development-Renewable Energy Project.
Texas BioDiesel facilities will be built and operated with assistance from EnviroQuest Research, Advanced BioFuels, Lurgi PSI Engineering, and Wartsila of North America.
Texas BioDiesel will provide energy companies and public
and private fleets the most cost efficient method for addressing
federal and state clean air legislated mandates. Texas BioDiesel facilities provide an economic solution for meat producers and independent and integrated renderers who are today required to dispose of tallow and fat material in landfills. Using Texas BioDiesel's exclusive technology, these materials can now be used to produce biodiesel. The technology is being engineered
so that rendering facilities
of all sizes will be able to have their own integrated biodiesel-bioelectric
production systems.
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