Afghan Energy Project Special Meeting on Cotton

Producing Fuel from Cottonseed Panel

Bill AllmonEnergy and Power DivisionU.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)bill.allmon@us.army.mil

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Why ARL is involved?

• Energy security for all locations of current and future operations around the globe.

• Research use of alternative fuels where petroleum-based fuels are not readily available and/or are dangerous and costly to deliver.

(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

One Approach

Expeller

Commercial Generator

RuggedizedCommercialBiodieselProcessingSystem

(Michael Jacobs/Courtesy photo)

Accomplishments

• Evaluated small expellers.

• Lab tested small expellers.

• Evaluated small biodiesel processing systems.

• Developing an oil identification and quality measuring process.

• Created a draft design of a portable extraction system.

• Produced a draft CONOPS.

• Partnered with the Marine Corp Expeditionary Energy Office (E2O) concerning cottonseed.

Future Directions

• Researching the availability of various feedstocks throughout world.

• Select the best candidate feedstocks.• Extract oil from these feedstocks and blend with JP8

and/or biodiesel and test operation in generators.• Develop a properly scaled system to extract oil and mix

with JP8.• Monitor the development of other alternative fuel areas.

Producing Fuel from Cottonseed

• Oil Extraction – Richard Barton

• Traditional Processes – Jeremy Butz

• Automated Processes – Russell Teall

• Magic Processes – Peter Bell

• Advanced Processes – Jennifer Holmgren

• Discussions