Your Host: Lyle Estill
Estill is the author of numerous articles, essays, and blog entries, including the book, Biodiesel Power; the Passion, People and Politics of the Next Renewable Fuel. Around town he is less known for his speeches and contributions to energy policy than he is for his full head of hair.
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Speaking at Guilford
Yesterday I spent the afternoon and evening at Guilford College in Greensboro as part of a speaker series on sustainability. I had to change it up a fair bit-on the fly-but this is largely what I said:
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Mobile and Educational Reactors
We seem to have both education and trailers in our blood here at Piedmont Biofuels. From our workshops and beginnings teaching at CCCC and our first Cleantech trailer in 2005 we have been building biodiesel plants on trailers. Over the … Continue reading
Feedstocks
Feedstock is what we use to make biodiesel. From the beginning we have been committed to a “multi-feedstock” philosophy. That is, we have always included flexibility into our thinking, and designs. We make biodiesel out of a wide variety of … Continue reading
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Published Research
We make our research available both through traditional academic publications and white papers. Here are some of our research efforts in their published or soon to be published formats: 2010 City of Raleigh Sunflower Project Trap Grease Feasibility Study for … Continue reading
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Leif Forer resume
Leif C. Forer PO Box 557 | Carrboro, NC 27510 (919) 533-9007 | leif@biofuels.coop Summary A biofuels professional and entrepreneur with over ten years experience in business development, government relations, and public advocacy with an emphasis on catalyzing growth of … Continue reading
Greg Austic resume
Gregory Bruce Austic gbathree@gmail.com EXPERIENCE Piedmont Biofuels LLC – Pittsboro, North Carolina Research Coordinator June 2008 – current, Full time Co-founded the Research and Analytics department at Piedmont Biofuels. Have been instrumental in developing Piedmont Biofuels’ internal governance structure, which … Continue reading
Xiaohu Fan Resume
RESEARCH and COMPUTER SKILLS Familiar with biodiesel production process and biodiesel product quality analyses in ASTM D6751; Familiar with HPLC (PDA and ELSD detector), GC-FID, ICP-AES, FT-IR, TGA, and PDSC analyses: Method development and troubleshooting; Familiar with Experimental Design using … Continue reading
Batch Systems
Piedmont Design-Build’s flexible and robust batch reactor systems are designed for a wide variety of feedstocks. We are committed to production systems that provide quality, compatibility, and full ASTM D-6751 compliance. Piedmont’s proven batch reaction systems are the result of … Continue reading
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Piedmont Biofuels 20k-125k gpy Batch Production Skids
Our flexible and robust batch reactor systems are designed for a wide variety of feedstocks, with quality, compatibility and scalability in mind. Piedmonts proven batch reaction systems are the result of 8 years of experience designing and building batch production … Continue reading
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Speakers
Need a speaker? We love to talk about ourselves and about our project. Some of us do more speaking than others, and we offer a spectrum of choices. On one extreme we have Lyle. He has averaged one talk a … Continue reading
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