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Case Study of a Community Scale Operational Biodiesel Plant
Methanol Recovery Focus
Kelley Green Biofuel
Kristopher Kelley and Link Shumaker
Presented at the Collective Biodiesel Conference
Piedmont Biofuels, Pittsboro, NC
August, 2014
Company Backgrounds
� Kelley Green Background
� Bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis
� Grew up on a farm
� Started Kelley Green Biofuel in 2008
� Began by collecting oil in St. Louis
� Personally built processing plant in Louisville, KY
� JL Shumaker Consultancy Background
� Educated in engineering (ChE, BAE) at University of Kentucky
� Researched mixed oxide transesterification catalysis at UK
� Entered industry fall of 2007 at Piedmont Biofuels
� Worked in ~7 plants in the Southeast, Midwest and New England
� Began working with Kelley Green fall of 2012