Nova Biosource Fuels Expects All Three Biodiesel Trains at New Illinois Plant to Be Running by September

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Nova Biosource Fuels Incorporated (AMEX:NBF) (Houston, Texas), formerly known as Nova Energy Holding Incorporated, expects to have all three biodiesel production trains at its newly constructed plant in Seneca, Illinois, running at full capacity by early September.

Construction on the plant started in April 2007, and the facility is configured with three 20 million-gallon-per-year process trains that will produce 60 million gallons of biodiesel when fully operational. The company started up the first train in April, and the second train went into operation in June.

The plant utilizes the company's proprietary patented biodiesel production process technology and can utilize 25 feedstock sources. Feedstocks include vegetable oils, animal fats and reclaimed greases. Nova's proprietary biodiesel production technology produces fuel that exceeds current ASTM D6751 specifications for biodiesel fuel blend stock.

The plant is in an ideal location, roughly 60 miles southwest of Chicago on the Illinois River with rail and interstate transportation infrastructure.

Cost estimates to build the plant are in the $60 million range, and the facility was built by Edwards Engineering Incorporated (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).

Nova's process technology is also being utilized in biodiesel plants owned by Clinton County Bioenergy, a 10 million-gallon-per-year plant in Clinton, Iowa, that went into operation in October 2006; Sanimax Energy, a 20 million-gallon-per-year plant in De Forest, Wisconsin, that went into operation in March of 2007; and Scott Petroleum, another 20 million-gallon-per-year plant in Greenville, Mississippi, that is expected to go into operation by the end of 2008.

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