Bio-NRG plans biodiesel plant
Iowa-based Bio-NRG plans to build a $35 million (€23.4 million) integrated oilseed crushing and biorefinery facility on 15 acres on the east edge of LaHarpe, Illinois.
The company expects to break ground sometime in 2010.
Construction should take 12 to 14 months, with the plant expected to go online in 2011. It will be a 24/7, year-round operation that will employ between 25 and 50 people.
‘We'll be producing about 10 million gallons of biodiesel a year and about 500 tons a day of soyabeans will be crushed through the facility,’ Bio-NRG President Jon Hall says.
Conversations about the plant began in February this year.
LaHarpe met several prerequisites for a biodiesel plant, including access to rail, a qualified work force and enough soyabean production to meet the plant's 6 million bushel per year need.
Concerns about truck traffic and odour can derail plans for renewable energy plants. About 40 trucks a day on average coming in and out of the plant if no rail service is used.
The plant will use a mechanical process, instead of a chemical process, to force oil out of the soyabeans in the crushing facility.
A by-product of the crushing facility is a high energy soyabean meal. The plant will produce about 500 tons per day that livestock feedlots and producers can blend into animal rations.
The company expects to break ground sometime in 2010.
Construction should take 12 to 14 months, with the plant expected to go online in 2011. It will be a 24/7, year-round operation that will employ between 25 and 50 people.
‘We'll be producing about 10 million gallons of biodiesel a year and about 500 tons a day of soyabeans will be crushed through the facility,’ Bio-NRG President Jon Hall says.
Conversations about the plant began in February this year.
LaHarpe met several prerequisites for a biodiesel plant, including access to rail, a qualified work force and enough soyabean production to meet the plant's 6 million bushel per year need.
Concerns about truck traffic and odour can derail plans for renewable energy plants. About 40 trucks a day on average coming in and out of the plant if no rail service is used.
The plant will use a mechanical process, instead of a chemical process, to force oil out of the soyabeans in the crushing facility.
A by-product of the crushing facility is a high energy soyabean meal. The plant will produce about 500 tons per day that livestock feedlots and producers can blend into animal rations.
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