Biodiesel refinery

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On August 2, 2007, Nova Biosource Fuels announced that start-up operations are continuing to progress at the twenty million gallon per year biodiesel refinery being constructed for Sanimax in DeForest, Wisconsin. Since the initial plant commissioning, approximately two million gallons of quality biodiesel have been produced, some of which is from one hundred percent animal fat feedstock. The refinery has used a variety of feedstocks with free fatty acid (FFA) levels ranging from less than two percent to approximately seven percent in sustained production runs at near-throughput design rates using Nova Biosource's proprietary, patented process technology.

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Future test runs in the start-up phase are expected to include feedstocks with free fatty acid levels of up to twenty percent. The ability of the biodiesel refinery to process feedstocks with higher FFA levels is significant because these feedstocks tend to cost less than feedstocks with lower FFA levels.