Afghanistan Rural Fuel

Project

With the Multi Functional Rural

Fuel Platform M.F.R.F.P. Clean Water

Renewable Diesel

Rural Electricity

Energizing Afghan

Rural Communities

Instead of Poppy

Oil Seeds

Household Electrification

Clean Water

Rural Development Aid can supply…

but a rurally produced diesel fuel replacement is the missing piece in the aid puzzle that can energize

rural communities and provide income generation opportunities for the rural poor trapped in the

poverty cycle…

The Rural Poverty Trap?

This dependence on biomass energy in rural areas has led to women dedicating long hours to wood and water gathering activities, ensnaring

them and their families in the rural poverty trap...

Biomass energy like wood, dung etc. accounts for on average 75% of the total energy consumption in developing regions...

Rural communities grow Oil seeds instead of opium…

…process seeds into rural fuel and meal

cake…

…use de-coke material to power a diesel engine and sell

rural fuel for cash…

…use diesel power for electricity generation to charge

LED lanterns

and run the water maker.

Vegetable Oil can break the Trap?

Vegetable Oil

is a clean burning, renewable substitute for

petroleum based Diesel Fuel…

…2. or you can modify the vegetable oil to reduce it’s viscosity through a

chemical conversion process called Transestrification and produce

Biodiesel…

1. You can use a conversion kit to modify a vehicle and reduce a

vegetable oil’s viscosity on-board using engine heat…these are

commonly known as SVO kits.

How can vegetable oil replace diesel fuel?

Straight Vegetable Oil (SVO)

SVO is an acronym for “Straight Vegetable Oil” when used as a diesel fuel substitute.

Suitable oils are commonly found vegetable oils like soy, sunflower, canola and cotton…

Current Biodiesel Technology

Home Brew Refinery Containerized Refinery Industrial Scale Refinery

• A single tracer round shot into methanol tank destroys facility.

• A correctly place lighted cigarette in the on-site methanol tank

in a suicide mission destroys facility.• A methanol delivery tanker truck could be used as a suicide mission, a single tanker is capable of destroying refinery.

Small ↔ Large

The Challenges of using Methanol in a Biodiesel refinery in war torn regions are:

• You have to get the Methanol to the refinery. • Biodiesel is a different product from diesel fuel.

The Challenges of a Biodiesel refinery in a remote location:

The Rural Fuel Reactor

The reactor does not need Methanol and is capable of refining vegetable oil into

diesel fuel …

…this is not Biodiesel but Renewable Diesel.

This renewable diesel fuel meets all the existing

specification for petroleum derived diesel fuel – D975.

Rural Fuel Production Process

Heat

Feedstock Oil

Finished Fuel

Propane

Water

Vegetable Oil

Feedstock Reactions and Products

Liquids and Gasses

Carboxylic Acid

Carboxylic Acids, Hydrocarbons and EstersTriglyceride

Under heat, exist in vapor phase as

dimers of two monomers

Unsaturated Ketone

Paraffin

Cracking

Chemical Reaction

No Hydrogen or Methanol Needed

C3 backbone converted into

Propane

Triglyceride

Hydrocarbons

Carbon Dioxide WaterPropane

Triglyceride cracked into

Hydrocarbons

Oxygen converted into CO2 and water

Heat

Gasoline

Diesel

Kerosene

Heavy Fractions

Light Fractions

High quality fuel produced

The fuel produced has a high Cetane number of 63 for easy

starting…

…and has an excellent cold flow properties of:

Cold filter plug -10 Deg C 14 Deg FCloud Point: - 10 Deg C 14 Deg F

… (when made from a soy oil feedstock)

This level of performance is necessary

for the cold Afghan winters.

Tested Cotton Seed in our Lab

Technology Scale Comparison

Biodiesel Refinery

Renewable Diesel Refinery

The Renewable Fuel Products Reactor

Processing Complexity Comparison

StripFFA’s

Renewable

Diesel from

a refinery

Renewable

Fuel

Products

Reactor

Add Methanol

Phase Separation

Biodiesel “1.0” Wash

MethanolRecovery

Blendwith

Diesel

Heat AddHydrogen

Crackwith

Catalyst

Fuel

Fuel

Heat Reaction

Distillinto

Fractions

Fuel

Distributed Refining

Centralized Refining

Distributed Refining

Enables an exponential improvement in feedstock, the software of the biofuel industry.

Petroleum Diesel Biodiesel Renewable Diesel

We call it Biodiesel “2.0”

Producing a vegetable oil derived diesel fuel replacement that is ready to use in any diesel engine overcomes the need to convert the vehicle to Straight Vegetable Oil

(SVO).

This kind of diesel fuel production technology overcomes the practical issues of making biodiesel using transesterification in remote areas...

…and could be the missing piece of the aid puzzle.

TheM.F.R.F.P.Platform

The Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform enables

poor, rural farmers to free themselves from the poverty trap by using

vegetable oil seed crops to energize their

communities…

Multi Functional Platforms - MFP

Multi Functional Platforms (MFP’s) are used very successfully in countries like Mali as part of rural poverty alleviation programs.

The Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform - MFRFP

Adding a rural fuel production capability to other typical Multi Functional Platform sub-systems creates the Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform (MFRFP)…

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The M.F.R.F.P.Multi Functional

Rural Fuel Platform brings…..

…plus brings electricity and clean water to their communities …

…a way for rural populations to earn money producing diesel fuel…

Renewable Diesel Fuel

Clean WaterRural Electricity

Water pump for irrigation

Components of a Multi Functional Rural Fuel Platform (MFRFP)

Oil Seed Processor

Skywater water maker

Electric generator for lighting

Rural Fuel Processor

Diesel Engine

Flour Mill

What does the MFRFP look like?

Military patrols are the keystone customer

The military patrols made into remote regions in Afghanistan can be used as a keystone customer

base to help speed up getting rural fuel platforms installed

around the country.

Rural villagers have an economic interest in helping the military patrols arrive at

remote villages safely to buy their fuel.

Locally produced diesel can reduce the price the military pays

for fuel at the front line and reduces the amount of fuel that

has to be sent into Afghanistan via vulnerable fuel convoys.

Village Scale Deployment

Expand program to other villages once model perfected…

A military commander who is looking to win over a village in his area can provide a reactor in return for the villagers providing fuel for his patrol vehicles…

The military can establish an economic link between their patrols and the villagers economic income. The more the military show up, the more fuel they can buy, the richer the villagers become and the more information on the insurgency that can be gleaned from this regular contact.

The more the military show up, the more the villagers will reject the insurgent influence and the more secure the village will become. The military become associated with village well being, security and economic prosperity, not the mayhem and destruction of the insurgency.

If successful…install seed crush equipment …supply with raw oil seeds…

If successful…local farmers will see seeds being processed in their community and will feel confident planting for the next season to meet this local oil seed demand.

How to start?

Install one Rural Fuel Reactor…supply with vegetable oil…sell fuel to a regular military patrol…

Identify a local US commander that is willing to pilot the concept, that works with a suitable local community…

Thank you for your time.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact:Peter Bell at: 972-948-8355 info@mfrfp.com

http://www.mfrfp.org