Renewable Fuels

renewable fuels

A rapidly growing market, renewable fuels production is important to our economy as well as our environment. With our intense focus on sustainability, Quadra is well-aligned with this industry segment. We’re proud to offer an extensive selection of products to ethanol and biodiesel manufacturers. Our supply position for ethanol and biodiesel production covers the full range of required applications including pre-treatment, chemical intermediates, nutrients, process aids, and end-product modification. In addition to products specific to this industry, we combine chemistries from several other core markets such as food ingredients, fertilizers, water treatment and chemical intermediates. The result is an impressive lineup of products made locally available for your production needs. Ethanol: We offer a wide-array of products used throughout the Ethanol manufacturing process, whether by the dry-milling or wet-milling method, including chemistries for:

• pH control
• Yeast Nutrition
• Dehydration
• Denaturing
• Process additives for scale, odour & foam control

Biodiesel: Quadra carries an extensive offering of products used in all the major process steps related to biodiesel production including chemistries for:

• Feedstock pre-treatment
• Base-catalyzed Transesterification
• Acid-catalyzed esterification
• Product purification/dehydration/refinement
• Process additives for scale, odour & foam control
• Water pre-treatment

Services offered to industrial customers include:

• Product and safety training for technical and operations personnel
• Vendor managed inventory
• Local warehousing and superior logistics services
• Compliance services including SDS management