Owensboro Grain Schedules October Start-Up on New Biodiesel Plant

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)–Family-owned and operated Owensboro Grain Company Incorporated (Owensboro, Kentucky), is scheduling an October start-up on a new biodiesel plant at the company’s existing soybean-crushing and oil-extraction plant in Owensboro, Kentucky. Construction on the project started in June 2006, and the company is putting the final touches on equipment and going through start-up procedures.

The 50 million-gallon-per-year plant was designed and built by De Smet Process and Technology Incorporated (Marietta, Georgia), and creation of the plant took 14 months to complete. The plant will process virgin soybean oil processed at the company’s 75 million gallon–per-year soybean crushing and extraction that has been in operation since 1974.

Costs to build the plant were estimated to be in the $50 million range.

The plant is the first large commercial scale biodiesel plant to go into operation in Kentucky. Rendering company Griffin Industries started up a small-scale 2 million-gallon-per-year biodiesel plant in 1998.

Additional biodiesel plants in the state are being developed by Earth Biofuels Incorporated in Hickman (30MM gal/yr) and Green Earth BioFuel Incorporated in Ravenna (10MM gal/yr).

Another project planned by Four Rivers BioEnergy Incorporated (Benton, Kentucky) in Calvert City will produce biodiesel (35MM gal/yr) and fuel ethanol (105MM gal/yr) when it goes into operation in mid-2009.

Industrial Info's Production Database provides a comprehensive outline of all current development activities in the emerging synthetic fuels market. This database covers 124 ethanol plants in operation and 504 plants under development. It also covers 68 operational biodiesel plants and 205 biodiesel plants under development.

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