Biofuels And Nitrous Oxide

After people living at the Riverbend Farms subdivision observed that a yucky black, fetid substance had begun fouling the Black Warrior River, which runs through their backyards, Mark Storey, a retired petroleum plant worker, jumped into his boat to follow it upstream to discover where it was coming from.
A cocktail of Oil and grease from a biodiesel plant had been released.
The source turned out to be a converted chemical factory that had been transformed into Alabama's first biodiesel plant, a refinery which exists to process soybean oil into earth-friendly fuel.
"I'm in favor of the plant," a resident said. "But it was shocking that a facility such as that one would produce anything that could stream into the river without taking the necessary safeguards."
But the oily slime on the water returned again and again, and a chemical inspection of a sample taken last March revealed that oily slime spewing from the plant - was four hundred and fifty times higher than permit levels allow for, and that it had traveled at least two miles downstream.
The seepage, at the Alabama Biodiesel Corporation plant here around 17 miles from Tuscaloosa, are very much like others which have come from biofuel plants in the Midwest. The discharges, which can be hazardous to birds and fish, have many people without an understanding over the obvious incongruity of pollution from an industry that sells products with the promise of blue skies and clear streams.
Iowa leads the country in biofuel production, with forty two ethanol and biodiesel refineries actively working now and eighteen more plants being developed, according to the Renewable Fuels Association. In the summer of 2006, a Cargill biodiesel facility in Iowa Falls illegally disposed of 135,000 gallons of liquid oil and grease, which ran into a nearby tributary killing hundreds of fish.
According to the authorities biodiesel is safe for the environment, biodegradable and safe for sensitive environments, but some environmental scientists have warned that position understates its potential environmental impact.
"They're really considered nontoxic, as you would presume," said Bruce P. Hollebone, an environmental researcher with Environment Canada in Ottawa and one of the world's leading experts on the potential ecological consequences of vegetable oil and glycerin spills.
"You can eat the stuff, after all," Mr. Hollebone said. "But as is the case with many organic substances, oil and glycerin deplete the oxygen content of water with great speed, and that will suffocate fish and other life. And for birds, a vegetable oil spill is equally as lethal as an Exxon Valdeez kind of oil spill."
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