Renewable Diesel Approved for Use in Rolls-Royce Power-Generation Systems

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May 17, 2022

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(Rolls-Royce/Biobased Diesel Daily) Rolls-Royce has taken a significant step towards meeting its net zero goals, set out last year, with the approval by Power Systems of its Series 4000 and Series 1600 diesel engines for use with a range of EN15940-certified synthetic diesel fuels in power-generation applications. Following successful testing, including in the field, both types of engines can use a range of sustainable fuels including biomass to liquid (BtL), hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) and power to liquid (PtL) fuels such as e-diesel. They can all be used to replace conventional diesel fuel.

“There is already a lot of interest in HVO in particular from many customers in the energy industry and data center business, who want to improve their carbon footprint,” explained Tobias Ostermaier, president of the Stationary Power Solutions business unit at Rolls-Royce Power Systems. “The results from pilot customers show a significant reduction in greenhouse gases, nitrogen oxide and particulate emissions by using HVO instead of fossil diesel in their gensets.”

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The tests confirmed that mtu engines using HVO perform equally as well as engines using diesel in terms of maximum power, load acceptance and fuel consumption. HVO is a drop-in fuel, which means that there are no adaptions needed to the diesel plant infrastructure, hardware or software in order for it to be used. Synthetic fuel is also attractive to operators of emergency power systems because of its good storage stability.

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The company is already successfully operating an mtu fuel cell system has established a clear roadmap for the introduction of hydrogen engines and is now progressively releasing further engines that can run on sustainable fuels in more applications.

For detailed testing results for mtu Series 4000 using HVO, please see Rolls-Royce’s white paper. READ MORE

Rolls-Royce takes step towards net zero ambition with mtu gensets approved for sustainable fuels (Rolls-Royce)

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Rolls-Royce engines approved to run on biofuels (Biofuels International)

Reducing CO2 emissions by up to 90% with HVO (Rolls-Royce)

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