The Quick and the Mobile

摘要

Fast, portable biodiesel analyzers were never designed to certify product to ASTM D6751 specifications. They were, however, developed as convenient tools that can be used by any plant personnel, truck driver or terminal worker to gauge various fuel, or feedstock, parameters in several applications. For instance, if a blender wishes to maximize the allowable biodiesel content in diesel fuel to exploit payout from financial incentives, such as the federal |1 per gallon tax credit, state production incentives, and low carbon or RIN credit revenues, a field test can determine in seconds how much biodiesel is in the incoming fuel, and how much B100 can be added. Inside a biodiesel production facility, workers can monitor samples in-process to gauge reaction kinetics, or finished product as an ongoing quality control measure before spending precious cash on running the expensive suite of ASTM tests.