Inventors:
Martin Allan Morris - Monticello IL, US
Tony Khan - Champaign IL, US
Michael J. Henneman - Champaign IL, US
Jim Vollrath - Champaign IL, US
International Classification:
C10L 1/19, B01J 19/00
Abstract:
A mobile biodiesel production facility comprising a shear mixer, a centrifuge, a control unit, and a plurality of pumps needed to pump the feedstocks and reactants. Upon mixing, the feedstock and reactant mixture becomes a reaction product. A residence tank collects the reaction product, where it rests for some time and self-converts to a residence product. The residence product is then pumped to the centrifuge, where the centrifuge separates the residence product into biodiesel and a heavy phase product. The control unit coordinates the operations of the shear mixer, centrifuge, and plurality of pumps.