New Generation Biofuels pioneers the market between diesel and biodiesel with additive-based fuel oil

In Maryland, more details have emerged about New Generations Biofuels in an exclusive interview with Biofuels Digest on the company’s business model and development path. “We blend additives, it not a chemical reaction,” said company CEO Dave Gillespie, outlining the principle difference between New Generation Biofuels’ product and biodiesel. In short, they don’t try to take the glycerine out of biodiesel, the use additives to make it reduce what Gillespie described as “not very suitable gooeey, gummy veggie oil.”

A water atomizer reduces the NOx from New Generation Biofuels’ diesel-from-straight vegetable oil product, which is being used by Dynegy and Taunton. With no glycerine output, there is no waste stream to manage and the yield increases because the 10 percent of glycerine remains “in the bottle”. Gillespie conceded that there has been resistance to the product because it is far less known than biodiesel, but he said that power customers have been receptive to a “try before you buy” approach.

The resulting fuel is well suited to power generation and backup generators, and is feedstock-agnostic, working with soy, jatropha, palm oil and recycled greases. The company has developed a customer base on both ends of the “price vs. environment” spectrum.

The development cost of the system is 75 percent storage and distribution, and a 5 Mgy capacity system will fit on a 12,500 square foot pad. For a power generation facility looking to incorporate biofuels to reduce carbon emissions and avoid emission penalties or generate a few Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), H2 is a company to carefully consider.

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