We completed a 12 month long test program
at Stanford University, run by
Professor Tom Jaramillo. We tested various
oil feedstock and determine their suitability for processing by the
Renewable Fuel Product reactor into a finished fuel product.
We started at the University of California at Davis,
with the test reactor located in the biomass laboratory, run under the direction of Professor Brian Jenkins
until we moved to Marina.
Renewable Fuel Products
is collaborating with Carbon Capture Corporation (CCC) at their Imperial
Valley facility, in order to secure the algae biomass necessary for
their joint effort on an algae biomass-to-fuel research program.
The Carbon Capture
Corporation facility provides approximately 8 million gallons of pond
capacity and currently produces four algae strains used by Carbon
Capture Corporation for its research needs. These ponds represent the
largest open pond algae biomass research facility in the USA.
The Renewable Fuel
Products’ reactor does not suffer the finished product infrastructure
challenges facing Biodiesel or the hydrogen and feedstock challenges
facing renewable diesel produced in traditional oil refineries.
The Renewable Fuel
Product reactor is small scale, low cost, and is not sensitive to water
content. Additionally, there is no preference for high FFA content oil
and its catalyst free operation eliminates the need for external inputs.
These features make the reactor an ideal compliment for all but the very
largest algae biomass production facility.
Algal Biomass
Consortium
Renewable Fuel Products
is a member of Algal Biofuels Consortium ("ABC"). ABC was created in
2008 under the leadership of Sandia National Laboratories in
Albuquerque, New Mexico. ABC aims at providing a formal structure for a
public/private partnership focused on addressing the continuing
challenges in developing scalable algal biofuels.
Planning committee
members include Sandia National Laboratories, Carbon Capture
Corporation, New Mexico State University, Arizona State University,
NASA-Ames, University of Hawaii, the National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, DOE Office of the Biomass Program, MRI – MidAtlantic
Corporation, Solix Biofuels, UOP, Cargill, and the University of Texas.
