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Paul Totman of The Colusa Indian Community Council stands on site with his BioPro™380 and SpringPro™ T76. Paul and his colleague Scott Lunsford are in charge of making as much biodiesel as they can from a combination of reclaimed cooking oil (collected from the council's casino restaurants) and from safflower and sunflower crops the council grows on its sprawling 4,500 acres of farmland. "Just about every crop has some amount of oil in it" says Totman who points out that a vast amount of oil can be extruded from non-food grade crops. "One great source of oil for us now is sunflower screenings mixed with almond shells at a 90-10 blend," says Totman. Once the oil is extruded from these seeds it is converted to ASTM grade biodiesel in their BioPro™ and the remaining meal (a protein rich feed for livestock) can be sold for approximately $200/ton. Paul can make 200 gallons of ASTM grade biodiesel per day. He calculates that their total cost to make biodiesel, in chemical inputs, energy and labor is $1.50 per gallon! (And that's before tax credits for alternative energy equipment is factored in.)
See front page story in California Farmer, January 2010. And more... |
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Benefits for Casinos |
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Most casinos, are in the business of feeding their guests. And any group or business that feeds people, has a unique opportunity to make a clean-burning, alternative and renewable fuel called biodiesel out of waste cooking oil that is collected from that casino’s restaurant kitchens.
If you own a BioPro biodiesel processor manufactured by Springboard Biodiesel, converting this waste stream into biodiesel is as easy as operating a washing machine and you will make your biodiesel for less than a dollar per gallon (ROI calculator) All that is required is to collect your waste cooking oil, pour it through a 300 micron filter straight into the machine, add your chemicals and, press start. Making biodiesel in a BioPro is that easy. The BioPro will allow you to make ASTM-grade biodiesel (i.e. Federally approved grade) for approximately $0.95/gallon! Biodiesel will run in any diesel engine without the need to convert your engine and will blend with regular diesel at any ratio. Additionally, Biodiesel burns 78.5% cleaner than regular diesel according to the US EPA and every time you use it, you reduce the volume of pollutants that go into the atmosphere. |
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Colusa Indian Council |
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Paul Totman of The Colusa Indian Community Council stands on site with his BioPro380 and SpringPro T76. Paul and his colleague Scott Lunsford are in charge of making as much biodiesel as they can from a combination of reclaimed cooking oil (collected from the council's casino restaurants) and from safflower and sunflower crops the council grows on its sprawling 4,500 acres of farmland. "Just about every crop has some amount of oil in it" says Totman who points out that a vast amount of oil can be extruded from non-food grade crops. "One great source of oil for us now is sunflower screenings mixed with almond shells at a 90-10 blend," says Totman. Once the oil is extruded from these seeds it is converted to ASTM grade biodiesel in their BioPro™ and the remaining meal (a protein rich feed for livestock) can be sold for approximately $200/ton. Paul can make 200 gallons of ASTM grade biodiesel per day. He calculates that their total cost to make biodiesel, in chemical inputs, energy and labor is $1.50 per gallon! And that's before tax credits for alternative energy equipment is factored in.
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Paul Totman of the Colusa Indian Community Council in Colusa CA
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Shakopee Mdewakanton Indian Council |
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The Shakopee Mdewakanton Indian council has been converting the used cooking grease from their nine casino kitchens for over a year now. They own and operate a BioPro 380 and produce roughly 1,000 gallons of ASTM-grade biodiesel each month. Recently, they calculated that over an 11 month period, they save over $23,000 by making and using biodiesel made in their BioPro.
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Poarch Band of Creek Indians, Atmore, AL |
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Laura Cook, the Environmental Director for The Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Atmore, Alabama, estimates that her group makes biodiesel for $1.04/gallon out of waste cooking oil captured from their casino’s three restaurants. They began converting their biodiesel in a BioPro 190 at the beginning of 2008. They experimented with the fuel in several vehicles until they were given tribal approval to use the fuel in more and larger construction vehicles. The tribe’s intention is to expand their biodiesel production over time, based on how much cooking oil they can capture.
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Please contact Springboard Biodiesel if you’d like more information.