RE:RE:RE:How Much Does One Ton Produce???Now, to continue the math, 1 ton of oil is about 7.3 barrels of oil at 42 gallons per barrel is about 300 gallons. If I assume that is converted to 300 gallons or 1200 liters of diesel, or equivalent, that would mean 1 ton of garbage producing 590 liters of diesel is producing about 50% the volume of diesel as crude. Does that seem plausible? Is there a half ton missing somewhere? Is this like what weighs more a ton of bricks or a ton of feathers? Does that mean there's a half ton of nasty residue left over from the process or does it go up the smokestack?
Maxmoe wrote: Has cmc provided the profitability analysis somewhere? I'm going from memory of USA market but I recall, when gas is $4 a gallon, $1 goes to the refinery +/- 10 cents. Oil feedstock is $1.50 per gallon, and the other $1.50 is taxes, transport,storage and retail margin. So apples to sort of apples, cmc needs to get it out the gate at $2.50 or less per gallon. Call it 60 cents/L accounting for higher taxes, and cdn exchange. If the feedstock cost for cmc is 11 cents, all in, that's a big advantage over conventional crude at about 40 cents/L. So, what's the processing cost for one of their small batch plants vs a gigantic conventional refinery? Do we have that number? Bueller? Anybody?
lscfa wrote: McWhirter says $65 tonne = $0.11 per litre cost so 1 tonne creates 590 litres of diesel.
butchtennis wrote: Does anyone know how much one ton of feedstock produce of biodiesel???