The Anonymous Widower

Velocys Delivers 4 FT Reactors To Red Rock Biofuels In Oregon

The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on Biodiesel Magazine.

This is the introductory paragraph.

Velocys plc has completed manufacturing and delivery of four of its Fischer-Tropsch reactors to Red Rock Biofuels. Red Rock Biofuels plans to convert 136,000 tons of waste woody biomass into more than 15 MMgy of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel and naphtha fuels in Lakeview, Oregon.

It would appear that MMgy is million million (billion) gallons per year, which I assume are US gallons. Why can’t they use litres, tonnes or Olympic swimming pools, like everybody else?

It appears 15 billion US gallons per year is 56.8 million Olympic swimming pools per year!

This page on US Energy Information, which is entitled Diesel Fuel Explained, says this.

In 2019, distillate fuel (essentially diesel fuel) consumption by the U.S. transportation sector was about 47.2 billion gallons (1.1 billion barrels). This amount accounted for 15% of total U.S. petroleum consumption and, on an energy content basis, for about 23% of total energy consumption by the transportation sector.

If I haven’t got my millions and billions mixed up, that is an awful lot of diesel.

Especially, to be produced from woody biomass from reactors designed and built by a company spun out of Oxford University.

August 4, 2020 - Posted by AnonW | Energy | Biodiesel, Chemistry, Energy From Waste, Velocys