Increasing Cost with Bio-fuel Used Oil & Producing Camelina Resolution

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In America the renewal of the bio-diesel blending credit has started to put life back into the biodiesel industry. Along with the elevated price of fossil based fuels it’s actually a perfect storm for bio-fuels industry. At the time of writing this content the cost of used cooking oils for biodiesel biofuel production is:

White Grease (cnt/lb) 50.98

Yellow Grease (cnt/lb) 45.00

Tallow (cnt/lb) 49.50

Soybean Oil (cnt/lb) 55.52

These prices tell us the cost per pound in cents. To get the true cost per gallon you will need to multiply the cents price by the number of pounds within a gallon.

With the ascending price of feedstock oil what else could you do as a biodiesel manufacturer to control cost? The resolution is easy, grow and maintain your own biodiesel feedstock. It’s well known Soybean Oil, Corn Oil & Canola Oil are all food crops and compete for space on our dinner tables, however did you know there is another option? Camelina Oil. What’s Camelina you ask?

Camelina has been cultivated in Europe for thousands of years for cooking oil. It grows best in a cool, arid climate and is well-suited to a small grains rotation crop.

The plant will grow 1-3 ft tall and yields pale green leaves and tiny seeds. Camelina is cold temperature and drought tolerant, needs little fertilizer and can be produced with standard equipment. It can be broadcast or drilled at the end of fall, winter or spring, and straight combined in early July. Camelina has a 90-day growth cycle and current crop yields range between 500 to 3,000 lbs/acre. The two planting methods used are broadcast seeding or direct drilling. Sowing rate with each method is 5 lbs seed/acre.

Camelina is an oilseed crop in a number of Countries in europe (Austria, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Ireland, Poland, and the USSR) and a feedstock for biodiesel production.

Pure Camelina is cold-pressed oil made from Camelina Sativa seeds. It is one of the best sources of omega 3 essential fatty acids available.

Eventhough Camelina oil has been utilized for thousands of years, it is just now getting the notice it is worthy of for its usage as a bio-diesel oil energy source.

Additionally it is a safer source of omega 3 than fish oils. (Fish oils are at risk of mercury contamination). Pure Camelina oil is better than fish oil.

Camelina is definitely an under-utilized crop and it provides market options for the demanding Biodiesel marketplace. The technique of oil extraction is cold pressing. The additional benefit of using Camelina oil is it’s similarity to soybean oil for cold flow attributes, which is an important factor for cold climate biofuel producers. The seeds contain 29-45% oil and 23-40% protein and are high in omega 3.

Traditional high, water-use crops like cotton, corn and wheat require roughly 30 inches of rain fall or more to produce satisfactory yields. Camelina is known as a low- water use alternative crop with various marketing opportunities.

Therefore the very next time you have a board meeting to talk about increasing price of biodiesel feedstock oil, recommend contract farming of Camelina, your board members and investors will likely be grateful for the idea.

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