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• Biomass chipping, collection and transportation; <br /> • Used oil collection and transportation; <br /> • Biomass processing and briquetting; <br /> • Oil treatment and recycling; and <br /> • Briquette transportation. <br /> Of the energy consumed in the production of recycled fuel , by far <br /> the greatest amount would be the oil required to run the dryers. The <br /> dryers would, in "Phase 1" of the project, use a maximum of 1,600 gallons <br /> of oil per day, or 481,600 gallons per year. The total initial applica- <br /> tion for the recycled oil would be on-site; 822 gallons per day of the <br /> recycled oil (or 280,300 gallons per year) would be blended with 778 <br /> gallons per day of virgin distillate to form the 1,600 gallons of oil per <br /> day needed for the drying operation. <br /> The second largest consumer of energy would be the trucks for haul - <br /> ing the raw materials to the project site. Assuming 24 truckloads a day <br /> and an average round trip distance of 28 miles, a total of 144 gallons of <br /> gasoline per day (43,340 gallons per year) would be used in the <br /> collection and delivery of the biomass. The boiler that drives the oil <br /> recycling process would use eight gallons of oil per day or 2,400 gallons <br /> per year. The total known energy input is therefore the equivalent of <br /> about 527,340 gallons of oil per year. <br /> The energy resources that would be conserved through the use of <br /> recycled fuels involve several applications including: 1) recycled oil <br /> as process boiler and dryer fuel ; 2) biomass briquettes to be burned for <br /> electrical power generation; and 3) recycled oil that can be sold. In <br /> Phase 1 of the project, only the production of briquettes would be the <br /> net energy output of the facility, since all recycled oil will be used <br /> on-site. Yearly production of biomass fuel is projected to be about <br /> 216,000 tons after three years into the project ("Phase 2") . At 1.6 <br /> million BTUs per ton of briquette fuel and about 13,810 BTUs per gallon <br /> of oil , the equivalent amount of oil produced by the facility would be <br /> 25.03 million gallons a year. When energy inputs and outputs are <br /> compared, outputs are far higher, since only 2.1 percent of the amount of <br /> 3-83 <br /> 101-35.R2 4/11/89 <br />