Phillips 66 has accomplished the conversion of a former conventional refinery San Francisco, California, right into a renewable diesel manufacturing facility.
The Rodeo Renewable Power Advanced has now totally ramped up manufacturing to 50,000 barrels per day (bpd). Houston, Texas-based Phillips 66 had put the brand new facility into service within the first quarter at an output charge of 30,000 bpd.
“The Rodeo advanced contains new pre-treatment items that course of decrease carbon depth feedstocks, corresponding to used cooking oil, fat, greases and vegetable oil”, Phillips 66 mentioned in an announcement. The ability caters to the West Coast market.
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“The ability operating at full capability helps the rising demand for renewable fuels, lowers our carbon footprint and creates long-term worth for our shareholders”, Wealthy Harbison, Phillips 66 govt vice chairman for refining, commented.
When asserting the beginning of renewable diesel manufacturing final April 1, Phillips 66 additionally mentioned the transformed refinery might begin producing renewable jet gasoline by June 2024.
The mission, in keeping with Phillips 66, is likely one of the world’s greatest renewable gasoline refineries. “As a world-class provider of renewable fuels, the transformed facility leverages a premium geographic location, distinctive processing infrastructure and versatile logistics to considerably cut back lifecycle carbon emissions”, Phillips 66 beforehand mentioned.
Most of domestically produced and imported renewable diesel are consumed in California as a result of necessities of the state’s Low-Carbon Gas Commonplace, in keeping with the US Division of Power (DOE). The division defines renewable diesel as “a gasoline created from fat and oils, corresponding to soybean oil or canola oil, and is processed to be chemically the identical as petroleum diesel”.
The newest knowledge from the U.S. Power Data Administration (EIA) reveals that as of January 2023 the nation had an annual capability of 196,000 bpd to supply renewable diesel and different biofuels. There have been 17 renewable diesel and biofuel vegetation on the time, in keeping with the EIA.
Nonetheless, the U.S. has the accessible feedstock sources to triple its biomass power manufacturing capability to 1.1 billion–1.5 billion metric tons yearly, in keeping with a brand new evaluation commissioned by the DOE that recognized a number of new feedstocks.
The potential capability is equal to 60 billion gallons of renewable-carbon liquid fuels and will fulfill the demand for flight gasoline within the U.S., in keeping with the examine carried out by the Oak Ridge Nationwide Laboratory on behalf of the DOE’s Bioenergy Applied sciences Workplace.
The examine, the fourth of a sequence of assessments on biomass power potential within the U.S. since 2005, analyzed the capability of about 60 potential biomass power sources, a number of of which have been included solely now.
The newly recognized feedstocks embrace winter oilseed crops, timber and brush taken from forests to stop wildfires, macroalgae and carbon dioxide from industrial vegetation.
“The report finds that the vast dispersion and number of these sources will be certain that the advantages of expanded biomass manufacturing prolong to each rural and concrete areas”, the DOE mentioned in an announcement March 15, 2024.
The brand new evaluation raises the potential capability from the one billion metric tons every year recognized by the earlier “Bio-Ton Report”, revealed July 2016.
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