Rosemount Clean Energies develops terminal with biofuel capabilities

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, US, Rosemount Clean Energies has converted a 50-acre industrial site into a large terminal facility that will provide biodiesel blending.

The terminal features a large-scale rail spur and storage capacity of almost 500,000 million barrels, and can receive and ship products via rail, trucks, tanks and pipeline.

'Biofuels are here to stay,' Tim Yocum, chief manager of Rosemount Clean Energies, highlights. 'Canada just announced a 2% biodiesel requirement. Minnesota is going to 10% next spring. This new terminal will allow greater distribution of biofuels right where crops are grown and biofuels are produced.'

The terminal also has the capability to test biodiesel in the marketplace. 'Initially the industry struggled with the rollout of biodiesel. The ability of this terminal to customise products through injection blending ensures greater accuracy and a consistent product that takes the reliability question of fuel out of the question,' says Yocum. 'Now we can perfect biodiesel and additive blending in a highly efficient manner, collaborate with all parties to find an efficient medium to deliver new products to the marketplace and offer marketers and energy users a range of high-performance products specific to their applications and market demands.'

In addition to the distribution of biodiesel and ultra-low sulphur diesel fuel, capabilities of this clean energy facility will include the transloading, storage and distribution of ethanol, waste oil recycling asphalt, #6 oil, propane, diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG).

Learn about the Canadian biofuels and bulk liquid storage markets at the Biofuels International Canada expo & conference and Tank Storage Canada expo & conference, held on 3-4 October 2011 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Email rebecca@horseshoemedia.com for more details. Visit the event website at http://www.biofuels-news.com/global_events.php