Renewable Diesel Soars, but Biodiesel’s Here to Stay
by Anna Simet (Biodiesel Magazine) … I’ll point to a conversation that I had with Hermann Stockinger, chief sales officer of BDI Bio-Energy International, a company that has become well known for its technology, plant upgrading and project development capabilities. While discussing momentum in the renewable diesel sector, he was quick to point out that biodiesel is not going anywhere. In particular, “We see that biodiesel shows the best greenhouse gas savings—with the right technologies, it allows use of the lowest-quality waste materials that can’t be used for renewable diesel,” he says. “These waste materials require pretreating and are very hard to bring to a level that allows them to be used in renewable diesel reactors, due to the many impurities that cannot be separated up front … We see that there will always be good further opportunity for biodiesel when it comes to the use of low-quality waste materials.” READ MORE
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