Virginia Biodiesel Workshops

Virginia Clean Cities often works with the the United Soybean Board (USB) and Soybean Checkoff Program to host a series of seminars titled “Biodiesel and Our Changing Biofuels Landscape.” The soybean checkoff has been instrumental in developing the biodiesel industry and continuing research to prove the benefits of the domestically produced fuel. Based on US DOE figures, if every truck driver used a B2 blend of biodiesel, the U.S. trucking industry would consume over 796 million gallons of biodiesel, or the equivalent of over 530 million bushels of soybeans annually.

For updates on the progress of other Clean Cities-USB projects, visit the soybean checkoff’s Web site at www.unitedsoybean.org. Seminars were held in Richmond, VA and Knoxville, TN as well as via webinar.
Download the presentations from the seminars and webinar below.

Seminar Materials – Presentations

Presentations from August 2009 Knoxville Seminar
Webinar Master Presentation
Recording of Webinar: http://thesales.acrobat.com/p69255511

Past Virginia Clean Cities Biodiesel Events

Virginia Clean Cities won a competitive grant award from the National Biodiesel Foundation to host biodiesel fuel quality seminars to advance education on biodiesel quality issues. The target audience for these events, which have now concluded, included petroleum marketers, fleet managers, federal and state enforcement professionals and others.

The agenda included the following topics:

Biodiesel Preparedness: adding biodiesel to your product line, preparing for the transition to biodiesel, fuel sampling techniques, how to prepare customers for a biodiesel transition.

Fuel Management and Housekeeping: Basic properties and blending considerations for biodiesel, blending techniques, cold weather considerations, storing biodiesel blends, fuel quality assurance, biodiesel tax credit and funding opportunities.

ASTM & Quality Assurance: It’s not biodiesel unless it meets the ASTM standard. This session explores what the standard means, why it is vitally important to biodiesel’s future, what it means to producers, distributors and users and how quality control programs ensure ASTM standards are met.

Seminars were held in Poquoson, Chesterfield, Fairfax, and Roanoke in 2007, and in Prince George County in 2008. Download materials from each seminar below.