BioFuels Journal

Allard Research and Development, Dallas,TX, has launched a mini-ethanol refinery.

Highlights From the Podcast

• Applications are numerous including making fuel and generating electricity.

• Two families of machines. Manually operated and automated. Both similar in capabilities. 100 gallons a day to a few thousand gallons a day.

• Feedstocks range from waste soft drinks, fruit, conventional fuel crops such as sweet sorghum.

• Pretreatment preprocessors are being developed for different feedstocks also. For example, crush and juice apples may be utilized.

• Cellulosic ethanol is the frontier. Ideally, in the future, you could mow your yard and make ethanol out of the lawn clippings.

Adam Allard Biography

Adam Allard, president of Allard Research and Development, is an inventor and innovator of several products ranging from electronics, software, automation of systems, biotechnologies, and mechanical design and fabrication.

With over 25 years of professional experience, Allard and his company are poised to leverage emerging technologies into innovative and commercially viable products.

Company History

Allard Research and Development, LLC. was officially formed at the beginning of 2008 to bring to market the ethanol systems they had designed, and to provide a platform and infrastructure for research and development on a diverse array of technologies.

Aside from the line of ethanol fuel mini-refineries already in production, the company is currently designing integrated closed-loop food/fuel production systems as well as electric generating power plants and advanced, yet low cost turbine engines designs operated by ethanol and other biofuels.

For more information, call 888-782-4505.

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• Allard Research and Development, LLC

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