1218 Chestnut Street, Suite 1003

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Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel
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About The Energy Cooperative

• Nonprofit, member-owned cooperative with members
  throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.
• Founded in 1979 as a fuel oil cooperative. After
  electricity deregulation in 1998, the Co-op
  became a licensed electricity supplier and
  started selling electricity as well.
• Mission
• Provide energy cost savings, education, and
  advocacy on behalf of our members, particularly
  our low-income, elderly, and disabled members
• Promote the efficient use of energy and the use
  of renewable energy
• Support cooperative concepts and participate in
  the cooperative movement

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Co-op, Biodiesel Origins

• Evaluating potential for renewable heating oil
• Lack of options for biodiesel
• No local production
• Unnecessarily high prices

• A Good Fit . . .
• Mission Fit
• Non-profit
• Local Good Will
• Industry experience
• 25 years of energy experience
• Hands-on experience as marketers/aggregators

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Birth of Fry-o-Diesel

• Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel, a newly formed PA LLC,
  will produce biodiesel in the greater
  Philadelphia area.
• The Energy Cooperative will
• distribute biodiesel product.

Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel
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Energy Harvest Grant Winner

• Fry-o-Diesel granted 369,696 from PA Energy
  Harvest for demonstration-scale production
  facility converting trap grease to burner fuel
  and biodiesel

• Innovative Pilot Project addresses lack of
  existing models for converting trap grease into
  fuel
• End-goal 3mgy commercial biodiesel production
  facility (3.5 million project)

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Fry-o-Diesel

• Objectives
• Produce a biodiesel fuel from local renewable
  resources that is more cost competitive with
  petro-diesel than other biodiesels
• Reduce unnecessary expenses from feedstocks and
  transportation
• Locate in proximity to feedstock resource and end
  users
• Keep distribution radius small
• Use true waste product (trapgrease) as feedstock
  instead of materials valued in existing markets

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Recipe for Biodiesel

• Feedstock
• Virgin Oils (Soy, Canola/Rapeseed, Mustard Seed)
• Animal Tallow
• Recovered Waste Grease (restaurants)
• In Development (algae, insects, Jatropha)
• Reagents/Catalysts methanol and lye
• ??

• Product Biodiesel (B100)
• By-Products Glycerin and Water

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What is Trapgrease?

• Grease that flows down the drain in restaurants
• Restaurants required to have and maintain grease
  traps
• Trapgrease haulers are paid to evacuate traps and
  then have to pay to dispose of this waste
• Incinerated
• Landfill
• Trapgrease requires extensive pretreatment before
  it can be transesterified
• Many restaurants noncompliant, resulting in a
  serious pollution issue and costly nuisance for
  water department

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Source
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Partners and Supporting Entities

• Energy Cooperative (project management, building
  market)
• Russell Reid (trap grease collection)
• Philadelphia Water Department (create and
  deliver an outreach and education program aimed
  at educating restaurants )
• Abington School District (test B20 blend in
  school buses)
• Atlantic Coast Energy (identify suitable testbed
  for a live test of the burner fuel)
• The Energy Institute at The Pennsylvania State
  University (quantification of the emissions
  characteristics)
• W.W. Berry and Associates (process design and
  feasibility study)
• USDA Agricultural Research Services (chemical
  testing of the trap grease, burner fuel, and
  biodiesel)

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Fry-O-Diesel Implementation

• Construct demonstration-scale production facility
  to convert trap grease to burner fuel and
  biodiesel
• Assess feasibility of commercial-scale production
• Create replicable model of local fuel production
  for other municipalities
• Improve local air quality
• Improve local water quality
• Demonstrate an innovative technology
• Educate restaurants and food service
  organizations of the importance of installing and
  maintaining grease traps.
• Use facility to leverage the estimated 3.5 MM
  Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel needs to expand
  production to full commercial production of three
  million gallons of biofuels per year

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More Information

• Philadelphia Fry-o-Diesel
• 1218 Chestnut Street, Suite 1003
• Philadelphia, PA 19107
• T 215-413-2122 F215-413-2140
• www.fryodiesel.com
• info_at_fryodiesel.com

Links The Energy Cooperative
www.theenergy.coop National Biodiesel Board
www.biodiesel.org