Photo: EDG Fuels
March 26, 2013
BY Ron Kotrba
Environmental Development Group has put its small-scale biodiesel facility in Tucson, Ariz., up for sale. The plant, EDG Fuels, has installed capacity of 1 MMgy, according to its website, in addition to tank farm storage capable of holding 60,000 gallons of feedstock and 30,000 gallons of biodiesel in an industrial area of the city.
EDG also has available for sale a modular 3 MMgy skid processor.
The company states it is open to negotiation on the sale, including entertaining a lease-purchase agreement.
The process equipment includes feedstock pretreatment units, such as an Alfa Laval MOPX separator, along with a Hielscher ultrasonic reactor, a 2,800-gallon reactor vessel, a polishing column, a wastewater treatment unit and more. A call to EDG Fuels for more information was not returned. For additional plant and equipment details, visit www.edgfuels.com.
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EDG Fuels opened in March 2010.
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