A lot of Rantburgians have wanted to know the latest on this - basically, they are having scale-up engineering problems
....The latest target date for opening the Carthage plant is now this fall [04]. Engineers have already run the plant at capacity [200 tons/day]for as much as 12 hours at a time, and preliminary tests show the equipment works efficiently. Out of 100 Btus in a given unit of feedstock, only 15 Btus are used to power the process, with the remainder residing in oil, gas, and chemicals. Most important, the oil produced in these tests easily meets the specifications for diesel fuel... |