CF Tech is teaming with a National Laboratory and consultant WRR on Department of Energy (DOE) funded Biodiesel Research

CF Tech has been awarded a DOE 2016 Phase 1 STTR grant to research Waste Water Treatment Plant (WWTP) Fats, Oils and Greases (FOG's) conversion to Biodiesel. Work on this STTR will begin this month in conjunction with a research institute and our colleague Richard Madrak of WRR (Waste Resource Recovery).

CF Tech and the RI will use supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) technology and Idaho National Laboratories Patented Supercritical Solid Catalyst technology www4vip.inl.gov/research/supercritical-solid-catalyst/ to produce biodiesel without water and sulfur contaminants.

The goal of this project is to produce enough data on the reaction and separation of contaminants within the FOG and purification of the resultant biodiesel to produce ASTM D6751 quality biodiesel. In Phase II, CF Tech will design and fabricate a pilot sized facility to be installed at a WRR partner location in Connecticut to process the FOG into biodiesel for sale.

The DOE list of awardees can be found in a downloadable Excel file from the US DOE Department of Service:

fy16_pi_r2_award_list.xlsx
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