Biodiesel Magazine | Ron Kotrba

Ron Kotrba

Ron Kotrba is Editor of Biodiesel Magazine and Biorefining Magazine, published by BBI International and based out of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Before becoming editor of Biodiesel Magazine, Kotrba was senior writer for all of BBI International’s publications, writing for the company since January 2005. Prior to that, Kotrba was an advanced engineering laboratory technician for an OEM exhaust supplier and was involved in developmental work on diesel aftertreatment systems such as diesel particulate filters, urea SCR and lean NOx traps. Kotrba earned a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University.

Latest Posts by Ron Kotrba

May 16, 2012

Soy Energy general manager gives statement on May 15 plant fire

Soy Energy LLC, a 30 MMgy biodiesel production facility in Mason City, Iowa, caught fire May 15. No one was injured, said Jeff Oestmann, Soy Energy CEO and general manager in a statement. The fire started in a tank inside a restricted area. READ MORE

May 16, 2012

Facts on the dispute between Argentina, Spain

Spain’s apparent retaliatory biodiesel quota system only allows EU biodiesel to satisfy its mandate, Argentina writes EU trade director a letter expressing this could affect more than half of Argentine exports to Spain READ MORE

May 10, 2012

La. biodiesel plant Oswalt Bioenergy completes startup in 6 days

A biodiesel plant in northeastern Louisiana has gone from construction completion to full startup in less than a week. Oswalt Bioenergy, a 5 MMgy multifeedstock facility in Lake Providence, La., was engineered and built by Agri Process Innovations. READ MORE

May 09, 2012

BEI, TransBiodiesel ready to take enzymatic process commercial

Texas-based Biodiesel Experts International and Israeli company TransBiodiesel formed a joint working relationship where BEI will supply an engineering package or a complete enzymatic biodiesel plant and TransBiodiesel will supply enzymatic material. READ MORE

May 09, 2012

EIA brings monthly biodiesel production report back

The Energy Information Administration reintroduces its monthly biodiesel production report READ MORE

May 02, 2012

OceanConnect vs. US EPA: the inside story

For those who have not been following the always interesting cutthroat world of biodiesel lately, fraud, lawsuits, penalties and misfortune have been making headlines—again. READ MORE

May 02, 2012

Case No. 3: EPA issues Green Diesel violation for 60M bad RINs

The U.S. EPA issued a Notice of Violation to Houston-based Green Diesel LLC April 30 for generating more than 60 million invalid D-Code 4 RINs under the RFS2 program. The number of RINs in question almost doubles those from the two cases last fall. READ MORE

May 01, 2012