Plant Assets Sale

Plant Assets Sale
Consolidated Energy Holdings, LLC
429 Murray Street, Suite 700
Alexandria, LA 71301
Ian M. Lawson
ian@vanguardsynfuels.com
(318) 542-7280
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Contents
About this Asset Sale …………………………………………………. 3
Existing Plant ……………………………………………………………… 4
Plant Overview …………………………………………………………… 6
Plant Overview – current operations …………………………. 9
Marketing …………………………………………………………………. 13
Potential NEW sites for biodiesel plant………………………. 14
General Assets …………………………………………………………… 17
Process – Transesterification ……………………………………… 69
Chemical Area ……………………………………………………………. 93
Electrical In-Process Area ………………………………………….. 101
Chemical Laboratory …………………………………………………. 115
Glycerin Tanks …………………………………………………………… 127
Other Assets ……………………………………………………………... 130
Pipeline Assets ………………………………………………………….. 134
Asset Inventory List …………………………………………………… Ask
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About This Asset Sale
Vanguard Synfuels, LLC is 100% owned by its holding company, Consolidated Energy Holdings, LLC (CEH).
CEH are asking $5.25 million ($0.35/annual nameplate gallon) for the assets of Vanguard Synfuels, LLC
(ww.vanguardsynfuels.com) a fully licensed, 15MMgy, EPA accredited, operating biodiesel plant.
The sale requires the buyer to move the plant’s assets from its current location to a site of the buyer’s choosing; however,
Vanguard will aid in re-establishing the fully operational plant (the existing Vanguard site is being re-purposed for others).
On the site of a former anhydrous ammonia (fertilizer) plant, Vanguard’s biodiesel plant was commissioned in 2005 as a
biodiesel plant to run very low FFA oils such as soy and canola. In 2010 bioenergy engineering firm, Jatrodiesel
(www.jatrodiesel.com), re-designed and managed the construction of a major plant upgrade allowing the processing of
up to 22% FFA oils such as poultry fat, fish oil, yellow grease, used cooking oil and tallows. The work also increased the
plant’s annual throughput (nameplate) from 12MMgy to 15MMgy.
Jatrodiesel will provide engineering services to design and manage the tear-down, transportation to the new site, and
erection of the plant on a turn-key basis. This includes permitting and all engineering and construction required for
commissioning the new plant (either as an add-on to an existing plant or a greenfield).
Additionally, for approx. $4 million, the plant could be expanded to 30MMgy.
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Existing Plant
 Fully operational biodiesel plant at Pollock, near Alexandria, LA
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Existing Plant
 Plant from the air in 2012
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LEGEND:
A: Administrative offices
B: Main processing building
C: Control & chemistry lab
D: Warehouse
E: Finished biodiesel
F: Rail spur (on theUP)
G: 9.2 million gal. tank
H: Cooling towers (not used)
I: Settling ponds (not used)
J: Feedstock tank
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Plant Overview
 Current operations, facilities and logistics
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Fully operational 15
million gallons per
year production
Continuous process
technology (as
opposed to batch)
Multi-feedstock
capability: soy, corn and
animals fats, up to 22%
FFA.
Facility includes a
6,000 sq. ft. brick
administration office
Biodiesel chilling
system for meeting
winter spec product
Adequate storage for
feedstock, biodiesel,
chemicals and glycerin
Facility sits on 320
acres with 100 for
industrial use
Glycerin processing
and storage (to 84%
purity level)
Truck access with
certified scales and
micro-motion meters
Fresh water permitted ponds (not
used) and two
permitted water
wells
Dry wash system
(uses no water).
More efficient,
better final product
Rail access via Vanguard’s
two rail spurs off the
Union Pacific mainline
Plant connected to
two industrial natural gas pipelines
Distillation column
removes methanol
from glycerin
Water access via Red
River port 16 miles from
plant. Connects to Gulf
and Mississippi River
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Plant Overview
Jerome Whiddon,
Plant Manager
 How Vanguard makes its biodiesel . . . (steps 1-6)
1. Feedstock is drawn from storage
2. Removal of moisture and impurities
3. Steam boiler keeps feedstock hot
4. FFA in feedstock is esterified to biodiesel
5. Methanol & catalyst to start reaction
6. Transesterification tanks (continued . . . )
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Plant Overview
Jerome Whiddon,
Plant Manager
 How Vanguard makes its biodiesel . . . (steps 7-12)
7. Glycerin is settled out of biodiesel
8. Methanol is removed from glycerin
9. Biodiesel is chilled to remove sterols
Feedstock is drawn from storage
10. Partially complete biodiesel storage
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11. Biodiesel stored before final polishing
12. Biodiesel finished product tank
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Operations Overview
 Plant operations managed from a single control center, 7/24
• The PLC (programmable logic control) is manned by a single operator
• Plant runs two 12-hours shifts seven days a week
• On night-shift, one operator and a utility man
• Day-shift is the same as night plus up to two maintenance personnel
• PLC controls all feedstock, chemical and biodiesel processing
pump flows, dwell times including temperatures and pressures.
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Operations Overview
 Chemistry lab and testing of biodiesel
• At right a sample of biodiesel
Vanguard typically produces and
processed from a blend of used
cooking oil and animal fats
(called yellow grease or YG)
• Below left a sample of #2
diesel fuel.
• At right, the same fuel blended
with 20% Vanguard biodiesel
• All incoming feedstock is tested
to meet agreed upon specifications
(typically not over 15% FFA or 2%
moisture, impurities and unsaponafiable
materials
• While the PLC controls product flows,
temperature and pressure, material in process must be
checked manually for meeting correct condition at certain points
• Once the biodiesel is finished it is tested to meet the ASTM 6751
specification required by customers and for obtaining government subsidies.
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• 100% #2 diesel
• 80% #2 diesel
w/20% biodiesel
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Operations Overview
 Typical Biodiesel Certificates of Analysis
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Operations Overview
 Loading for rail cars
• Two spurs connecting to the Union Pacific
• A total of 33 cars can be berthed at a time
• Fast biodiesel loading racks for multiple cars
• Designed for off-loading feedstock
• Steam injection to cars to ease unloading
in winter months for low iodine feedstocks
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 Trucks 15 minutes to Interstate
• Easy off-loading of trucks to feedstock tank
• Micro-motion meter and scales for measuring
incoming and outgoing loads
• Paved roads throughout plant
• Steam injection system for high iodine feedstock
unloading
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Marketing
 Biodiesel marketing and sales
• (Left) Darrell Duboc, CEO with Ian Lawson,
Sales & Marketing Manager
• Almost all biodiesel produced finds a ready
market within about 350 miles of the plant
• The company sells to distributors who blend the
biodiesel to between 5% biodiesel and 95% #2
diesel fuel and 20% biodiesel and 80% #2 diesel fuel
• The biodiesel finds its way to retail stations all over Texas
and along the Gulf coast
• The local market for biodiesel is handled through the port (PAAL)
where local distributors can pick up blended biodiesel and deliver to
stations in central Louisiana
• An increasing number of sales are made to customers using 100% biodiesel.
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Pilot is America’s
largest truck stop
chain
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Potential Plant Location
 Site marked in yellow w/rail and water access. I-49 is ½ mile away
7 acres
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Asset Inventory List
 List of all assets (and pictured in separate pdf document)
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Description
Reactor 302 -1250 gal Acid Neutralization
Reactor 501 -1250 gal Biodiesel Dryer Holding Tank
Coalescer 701 -Glycerin Dryer Column
Coalescer 201- Feedstock Dryer Column
Coalescer 301- Post Esterification Dryer Column
Coalescer 302- Post Esterification Dryer Column
Coalescer 501- Biodiesel Dryer Column
Coalescer 502- Biodiesel Dryer Column
Reactor 301 -20,000 gal esterification reactor with 3 lightening mixers (agitators)
Jatro Esterification Skid (whole) with pumps/heat exchangers & valves
Vacuum Pump and orange 810 tank
Pump 810- vacuum pump
Niagara Condensing Unit
Cleaner Brooks Boiler serial no. 1-67404
Derator with pumps and skid
Ingersoll-Rand compressor, dryer and holding tank
Pump 101- Feedstock offloading pump
Pump 100- Feedstock Recirculating pump with electrical controls and piping
Tank 450- 6000 gal fiberglass biodiesel tank
Tank 451 -6000 gal fiberglass biodiesel tank
Tank 452 -6000 gal fiberglass biodiesel tank
Pump 451- Biodiesel Transfer Pump with electrical controls and piping
Coalescer 402- 20,300 gal Biodiesel Coalescor
Glycerin Day Tank-12,750 gal with transfer and recirculating pumps (2)
GDT Pump
Column 601- 16,500 gal cone bottom tank
DT 601- 16,900 gal Bio Holding tank
DT 602- recirculating pump and transfer pump
Distallation effulent 6300 gal tank and pump
Jatro Diesel Distillation Column
Jatro Diesel Dist Column with reflux drum and Heat Exchanger and 4 associated pumps
Cooling towers 1 and 2 (fiberglass) for Distillation Column and plant
Cooling Tower Pump and Electrical
Tank 4300 -Lined Skid Mounted Tank
Tank 5- 12,670 gal Recovered Methanol Tank with Heat Exchanger and Valves
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Trane 60 ton Biodiesel Chilling Unit
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Glycol Storage Tank and Circulating Pump
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Biodiesel Chilling Heat Exchanger
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Biodiesel Chilling Shed
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Siemens 25 HP Biodiesel Chilling Pump
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DT 602- 30,000 gal Bio Chilling Tank
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Small Biodiesel chilling Transfer Pump between tanks
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DT 603 30K Biodiesel Chilling Tank # 2
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Horizontal Leaf Filter 601 with stand and controls
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Green Magnesol Transfer Dumper
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Post Chiller reheat Heat Exchanger
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Large Blue Sock Filter
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Post Filter Holding Tank and Pump
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Horizontal Leaf Filter 602 Small Blue Horizontal Leaf Filter
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Horizonaton Leaf Filter 602 Dumpster
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Post 602 Sock Filter
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Air Holding Tank
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230 gal White biodiesel Tank with Pumps
Process (Transesterification) Area*
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Biodiesel Process Shed
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Reactor 401- 7200 gal Trans Reactor
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Pump 405 - Transesterification Recirculating Pump
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Transesterification 1 Heat Exchanger
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Coalescer 401 -3800 gal
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Coalescer 401 Pump
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Reactor 402 -7200 gal Transesterification Reactor # 2
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Pump 407 -Transesterification 2 Pump
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Reactor 701- 3800 gal Clycerin Reactor
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Glycerin Reactor Heat Exchanger
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Transesterification 2 Heat Exchanger
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Feedstock Day Tank 2100 gal
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Pump 201- Feedstock Day Tank
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Feedstock Day Tank Screen Filter
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Empty 2100 gal Resin Tank
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Resin Tank 2100 gal
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Resin Tank 2100 gal
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Asset Inventory List
 List of all assets (and pictured in separate pdf document)
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Reactor 601- 3600 gal Powder Tank
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Reactor 602 -3600 gal Powder Tank
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Reactor 603 Circulation/Transfer Pump for 601 and 602
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Reactor 604 -3600 gal Powder Tank
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Chemical Lab
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2 Hot Plates
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Titration Bench
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Centrifuge (Large)
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Flash Point Tester
Pump 607 -Transesterification/Recirculating Pump for 604
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Chiller Unit
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(2) Diaphram (Air) Powder Pump with hoses
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Lab Oven
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Ash Weigh Scale - OHAUS MFG
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Analytical Balance
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Karl Fischer with Spin Plate
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Lab Incubator
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Flammable Cabinet
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Benchtop Stirrer
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CP 3800 Varian Gas Chromatograph
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15,000 gal (Short Tank)
Chemical Area
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Pump ______ Acid Pumps (2) with Siemens Flow Meter
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Glycerin Neutralization Pump Skid
Pump 404- Transesterification 2 Sodium Methylate Pump with FIT 405 Coreolis
Meter
Pump 402 -Transesterification 1 Sodium Methylate Pump with FIT 403 Coreolis
Meter with stainless steel piping and valves
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16,000 gal (Tall Tank)
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30,000 gal Watco Horizontal Tank
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Sodium Methylate Pump with stainless steel piping and valves
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(3) 20 y d Magnesol Rolloff Dumpster
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Pump 403- Transesterification 2 Methanol Pump with FIT 404 Coreolis Meter
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20,000 gal White Horizontal Tank (Skid)
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Pump 401- Transesterification 1 Methanol Pump with FIT 402 Coreolis Meter
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Misc. Biodiesel Plant Parts
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Pipeline Plot Plan
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Pump 301 -Methanol to esterification Pump with FIT 303 Coreoling Meter with
stainless steel piping and valves
Glycerin Storage Tanks
Electrical- In Process Area
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Micro Motion Meter for Finished Biodiesel
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Portable Pump Disconnect
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120 Vac Breaker Panel
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480/277 Lighting Panel
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JB2-DCS Cabinet (stainless steel) 24 Volts -direct current
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JB3 DCS Cabinet (stainless steel) 120 Volts -alternating current
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MCCM # 1 Variable Frequency Drives with cabinet for JatroDiesel Equipment
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MCCM # 3 Variable Frequency Drives with cabinet
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120Vac/24dc Variable Frequency Drive Control Cabinet
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MCCM # 2 Variable Frequency Drives with Cabinet
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Delta V Control System and Control Board/Monitors
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Siemen Control System with Monitors
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Delta V Input/ Output (I/O) Cabinet
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Siemens CR1-Digital Control System 1
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