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By: Kevin Meneses, Vivian Reyes, Juliann Hilton, and Elizabeth Kim
Goal Statement: We CAN design an environmentally sustainable
biofuels plant that is competitive with conventional refineries that
produce fossil fuels.
ENGINEERING DESIGN
We are locating our plant at the Texas Gulf Coast in Calhoun Country, which
we will use soybeans to produce biodiesel.
Our feed-stock will be grown on-site. In order to cultivate soybeans, they
must grow in full sun with organic, well-drained matter at
Fahrenheit, sow the soybeans
12
-
inches deep,
60 70
-
degrees
20
13
biodiesel with B
Our final EROI is
Inputs
water
soybeans
steam
naturalgas
alcohol
hexane
steel
electricity
Outputs
biodiesel
gases
biomass