Indiana Biodiesel will be Road-Tested to Arctic Circle

Hoosier Ag Today
03/03/2009
Andy Eubank

An exciting new cold climate biodiesel produced in Indiana and funded by the Indiana Soybean Alliance will get the ultimate cold weather test this week during a trip north to Alaska. A process developed by Purdue University researchers with soybean checkoff funding has resulted in Permaflo Biodiesel, and ISA’s Ryan West says the Alaska adventure will demonstrate how the B100 performs with no gelling down to 67 degrees below zero. West told HAT, “We actually have a few legs to the trip. We’re starting in Anchorage and we’ll be going to Fairbanks through the Denali National Park. That’s leg one where we’re using B100 with no additives, no nothing, except for the Permaflo Biodiesel. From there we will stage a trip from Fairbanks to the Arctic Circle. We’ll actually be camping overnight in tents and using a generator that also uses B100. So we’re trying to show a couple different applications of the fuel and what it can really do.”

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