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by 7thpower
53 days ago
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Started my career working in AI for a company that had a couple large refineries (I didnt dare refer to what we were doing as statistics because those guys had all been fired a decade before after attempting to perform some back magic they called six sigma), pipelines, a fleet of ethanol plants (at the time) and a couple biodiesel bets, including one that attempted to convert corn oil into biodiesel. I was blessed to have a leader who wanted us to spend a lot of time on the field, working turnarounds doing, whatever I could to be helpful, etc. to learn the business and build relationships. Working around the refineries, especially during turnaround, was a crash course in constraint theory and economics. Good times. At any rate, all of that was to qualify that most people would not believe how much time and money has been wasted trying to find innovative new ways to serve and capitalize on the CA biodiesel market. |
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I am curious as to what is meant. Refinery side innovation or marketing or other?
In Australia over the years there's been a heavy focus on bio fuels and not any mention of renewable diesel or jet fuel. News items focus on modern vehicles, and not older diesels that of course could run on peanut or coconut oil without any chemical modification.
My locale (Northern Central Queensland Aust) bio-diesel is often produced small scale by individuals and not enough to be a statistic that I can find as a percentage of use in the state. Scaling up shouldn't be a problem in itself, it's just reluctance to use the present food oils as stock.