Advanced Biofuels

SDE performed a feasibility study to integrate General Biodiesel’s equipment and processes into their existing plant, producing up to 10 million gallons/year of biodiesel.

SDE was responsible for scale-up, design, and process optimization of a supercritical HTL technology from pilot plant to commercial demonstration scale.

This project incorporated the technology development, scale-up, and design of laboratory, bench, pilot and commercial-scale equipment. The process includes conditioning of residues and separation of contaminants to produce clean feedstock sugar streams, catalytic hydrotreating of sugars to produce bio-glycols and polyols, and separation of pure products via crystallization and distillation.

TUGLIQ SARF Energy was exploring the possibility of building a biomethanisation plant at the ArcelorMittal Produits Longues Canada (“AMPLC”) site to generate renewable natural gas from residual material, manure from the surrounding cattle and hog farms, along with other organic waste.

Sacré-Davey was involved with the Development of a 17.5 million gallon/year biodiesel plant utilizing local used cooking oil, yellow grease, and beef tallow as feedstock. SDE was responsible for the complete process design, detailed design, construction management, commissioning, start-up and warranty for the plant.

Sacré-Davey Engineering Inc. (SDE) was commissioned by the City of Surrey as the “Design and Construction Representative” for the Organic Waste Biofuel Facility located in the Port Kells Industrial Park, Surrey, BC.

Our client wanted to install a facility to offload biodiesel, store it, then reclaim and blend it into traditional diesel in a blending range from B5 to B20. Sacré-Davey provided complete multi-disciplinary engineering for the detailed design of this project.

SDE used their experience with solid metal catalysts in renewable fuels to design a pretreatment process for a broader range of feedstocks (40% FFA max) to suit Benefuel’s high-temperature and high-pressure catalytic technology.

SDE developed a glycerol esterification technology from small pilot scale to a full-scale commercial process capable of converting 6 million gallons per year of fatty material to biodiesel feedstock.

Complete multidisciplinary design for a biodiesel production facility. The plant had to produce various grades of biodiesel from multiple feed- stock.