Superior Process Technologies, Inc.

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Superior Process Technologies is a Chemical Process Development and Design company. Our engineers and chemists collectively have over 60 years of experience in the Oleochemicals and Rendering industries; therefore, our primary focus has been the process development of biodiesel fuels made from high FFA waste oils such as brown grease, yellow grease, and rendered oils.

Doug Smith – General Manager : Doug is a degreed Analytical Chemist; he earned both a BS Degree in Chemistry and a BAS in Business and Finance, from Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina. Doug has represented Baker Commodities, and Superior Process, on the National Biodiesel Board (NBB) and served on the NBB Governing Board from 2008 through 2012. Doug has worked in the Oleochemicals and Rendering Industries for over 25 years, as a plant chemist, and GC analysis expert.

Our process design for the manufacture of Biodiesel is based on years of experience in the Oleochemicals Industry. Of all the pretreatment options for low cost, high FFA feed oils (steam stripping, caustic washing, acid esterification, and glycerolysis) we have identified “Glycerolysis” as the most energy efficient, cost effective, and robust of all the options. We (SPT) have spent the last 6 years refining the glycerolysis process and incorporating it into our signature biodiesel process design.

The most cost effective feed stocks for biodiesel production are also the highest in FFA, and darkest in color (yellow grease, brown grease, rendered oils, etc.). So, we begin the process of methyl ester production via pretreatment of these low end feed oils, with glycerolysis, to incorporate the free fatty acids into methyl ester product, instead of just removing them; this increases overall product yield.

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