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Study: Hydrotreated vegetable oils outperform methyl esters and BTL fuels

Source : greencarcongress.com

Researchers in Norway reviewing the lifecycle impacts and costs of three renewable fuels - (1) transesterified lipids, (2) hydrotreated vegetable oils (HVO), and (3) woody biomass-to-liquid (BTL) Fischer-Tropsch diesel - and feedstocks found that HVO made from wastes or by-products such as tall oil, tallow or used cooking oil outperform transesterified lipids and BTL from woody material in both areas. However, because those feedstocks are limited, to produce larger volumes of biofuels other raw materials must also be used, Kathrin Sunde from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and her colleagues noted in their open access paper published in the journal Energies. To expand biofuel production and use, they found that the next preferable feedstock is likely residual woody biomass for BTL. The relatively poor cost performance of BTL can probably be remedied through technological advancements, they suggested, noting that both the ability to not compete with food production and its environmental performance makes it a likely better option than most agricultural feedstocks.

6 June 2011 | Study :: Biodiesel :: Europe
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