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Coversion of waste water treatment plant fats oils and greases "brown grease" into bio diesel using supercitical fluids and robust catalyst processes./ Same as LOI on headers

Award Information
Agency: Department of Energy
Branch: N/A
Contract: DE-SC0015734
Agency Tracking Number: 0000223967
Amount: $150,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: STTR
Solicitation Topic Code: 10
Solicitation Number: DE-FOA-0001417
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2016
Award Year: 2016
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2016-06-13
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2017-03-12
Small Business Information
1 Westinghouse Plaza
Hyde Park, MA 02136-2075
United States
DUNS: 611380965
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 John Moses
 (617) 364-2500
 johnmoses@cftechnologies.com
Business Contact
 Jessica Sweeney
Phone: (617) 364-2500
Email: jessica@cftechnologies.com
Research Institution
 Idaho National Laboratory
 V Fox
 
2525 North Fremont Avenue 2525 North Fremont Avenue
Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3560
United States

 (208) 526-0111
 Federally Funded R&D Center (FFRDC)
Abstract

The Department of Energy has a mission to ensure America's prosperity and security by addressing energy and environmental challenges. This Phase I project aims to produce domestic, economic and environmentally responsible biodiesel fuel from brown grease, a waste that is
currently disposed in landfills or incinerated. The conversion of "brown grease" from wastewater treatment plant’s fats oils and greases
(WWTP FOG) has the potential to generate over 500 million gallons of biodiesel per year. The proposed project will test both pretreatment by supercritical fluids of the brown grease as well as development of robust catalysts using supercritical process and a final cleaning of the product using supercritical fluids to produce a high quality industrial biodiesel. CF Tech is teaming with Idaho National Laboratory, a pioneer in supercritical and catalyst reactions including their
patented SSC process, and Mr. Richard Madrak, President of Waste Resources Recovery, Inc., a consultant within the industry. In prior work, CF Tech and INL have successfully used supercritical fluids in similar developments. Commercial application and benefits of this successful technology will be to manufacture and
install conversion plants at wastewater treatment plants around the country to reduce landfill and incineration disposal, while producing high value crude bio-oil. To be economically viable, biofuels need low cost feedstocks, WWTP brown grease meets that requirement as a no cost or negative value feedstock.
Keywords: Wastewater treatment plants, brown grease, FOG, Free fatty acids, fats oils and greases, Supercritical, Carbon dioxide, Critical Fluids, Liquid fuel, Bio-fuel, Bio-oil, Catalysts, supercritical solid catalysts, SSC Process Members of Congress: CF Technologies, Inc. of Hyde Park, MA has proposed developing
technologies to convert rancid no-value, environmentally adverse brown grease from waste water treatment plants into high quality, valued biodiesel fuel.

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