Plasma Blue, LLC

Renewable Fuel

Plasma Blue reduces the cost of biodiesel production. Producing fuel, whether petroleum-based or bio-based, is a game of pennies and the producers with the lowest cost of production will always win. In biodiesel production, most savings come from lower priced feedstocks, the reduction of catalyst cost, the amount of energy used in the process and the price received from each gallon sold.

What is Biodiesel?

Biodiesel is a renewable biofuel that can be made from a range of oils, including soybean oil, tallow and recycled cooking grease. The flexibility of oil feedstock has led biodiesel to become a critical source of energy and transportation fuel across the globe. Today, biodiesel production capacity is spread globally from high-income countries to emerging economies. Within the U.S., there is a combined capacity of over 3 billion gallons of production.²

What is the Solution?

Plasma Blue’s technology creates biodiesel at a dramatically lower production cost while integrating easily into existing biodiesel plants, new greenfield plants, as well as ethanol plants.

Plasma Blue created a novel technology that dramatically reduces the cost of biodiesel production by:

  • Eliminating the need for pre-heating and heat maintenance
  • Shortening processing time
  • Replacing expensive catalysts with sodium hydroxide
  • Reducing production of partially processed product from incomplete reactions

By implementing this technology, Plasma Blue expects biodiesel facilities to achieve a savings of $0.07-$0.11/gallon. The technology is expected to enable the use of ethanol in the production of biodiesel, which could increase the value of the glycerin by-product by $0.10-$0.25/lb.³ Ultimately, these advantages could translate to more than $2.0–$3.2 million in annual savings for a 40-million-gallon biodiesel facility. Plasma Blue technology has the potential to enhance a plant’s overall carbon score. Depending on available incentives, this can be worth up to 15 cents per gallon, netting a 30-million-gallon plant $4.5 million annually.

1. https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/renewables-data-explorer
2. https://www.eia.gov/biofuels/biodiesel/capacity/
3. Interview with expert from Cargill.

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Results You Can See.

A revolutionary new technology that creates biodiesel at a dramatically lower production cost while integrating easily into existing biodiesel plants, new greenfield plants, as well as ethanol plants.