Entries in Category ‘Biorefining’
Digester Gas High BTU Processing Plant
Date Completed: 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide engineering and design services for a new 350 SCFM bio-digester gas to high BTU gas plant for the Vancouver Municipal Water Authority, in conjunction with QuestAir Technologies. This plant includes a 100% skid fabricated design concept. Engineering was finalized in early 2009, [...]
Biodiesel Plant Gap Analysis
Location: Date Completed: Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to perform a gap analysis to identify missing equipment and equipment requiring repairs. The analysis provided a cost estimate of what would be required to allow the skids to be in full working order. It also identified additional settlers required to improve product separation [...]
Expert Witness – Biodiesel Plant Operational Problems
Location: Midwest Biofuels Refining Client Date Completed: 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted by a Midwest law firm to review the operation of a biodiesel plant that was experiencing difficulties making product at design rates. Services Provided Venture reviewed the operation of the plant and found several design deficiencies that needed to [...]
Biodiesel Plant
Location: Crawfordsville, Iowa Date Completed: 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide engineering, procurement, and construction management services for a plant debottlenecking and upgrade project to increase biodiesel plant production capacity by 60%. The existing plant produced 4.0 M gal/yr of biodiesel from multiple feedstock including tallow, soy oil and choice [...]
USDA Loan Certificate of Operation
Location: Crawfordsville, Iowa Date Completed: 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide the review and certificate of satisfactory operation of a 9.0 M gal.yr biodiesel plant. The project included a review to ensure the actual construction was in accordance with design. Certification of the plant’s ability to produce at the design [...]
Digester Gas High BTU Processing Plant – 2000 SCFM Design
Location: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada Date Completed: 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide engineering and design services for a 2000 SCFM bio-digester gas to high BTU gas plant for QuestAir Technologies. This plant includes a 100% skid fabricated design concept, and will process municipal wastewater treatment plant anaerobic digester gas [...]
Biodiesel Plant
Location: Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada Date Completed: 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide detailed engineering and design of a new 66 million liter/yr (18 million gal/yr) biodiesel plant located in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. The current plant produces biodiesel from multiple feedstocks including soy oil and rendered animal fat. Services Provided Detailed [...]
Biodiesel Plant
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil Date Completed: December 2009 Project Scope Venture Engineering & Construction was contracted to provide front end engineering services, including process modeling utilizing ChemCAD dynamic simulation, PFD development, P&ID development, equipment sizing and selection, general arrangement of the plant, equipment and instrument lists, and capital cost estimate, for a Greenfield 18.0 M [...]