BC Company Plans to Use Forest Wastes to Produce Dimethyl Ether
18 December 2009
GV Energy Inc., a British Columbia, Canada company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the City of Terrace, British Columbia to acquire land in the Skeena Industrial Development Park to be used as the site of a biorefinery that will produce dimethyl ether.
The bio-refinery will be designed to convert a minimum of 1,000 cubic metres per day and a maximum of 3,000 cubic metres per day of forest residue into DME using a commercially established thermo-chemical production process.
DME, when made from renewable forest residues, is a second-generation bio-fuel that combines high-energy efficiency and low life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions. DME powered compression ignition vehicles will be able to meet new emission restrictions to be imposed on diesel trucks by California and other jurisdictions because they produce almost no Particulate Matter, no SOx emissions and low levels of NOx emissions, the company said.
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Getting rid of waste to produce cleaner liquid fuel is not a bad idea. If multiplied by 1,000 or 10,000 it could help.
Posted by: HarveyD | 19 December 2009 at 09:49 AM
DME is good, ANG is good...lots of better ways to fuel diesel vehicles. I favor NG for delivery through pipes to the point of use rather than using trucks. Either way, if they are using renewable energy, we are ahead of the game.
Posted by: SJC | 20 December 2009 at 09:20 AM