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send it down a pipeline across
the country and feed all those
refineries. For RD we're using
waste and residues, such as used
cooking oil and animal fat, so the
aggregation points are more
dispersed. It's a completely
different model and mindset.
Matt leuck is the technical manager at Neste and a current SAE member.
true when you get into medium- and heavy-duty
machines. There are also obvious materials concerns.
In my eyes, the biggest benefit to RD is that it's
available right now. There's no massive infrastructure
buildup, we don't need colossal investments to move
it across the country, and we're currently making it on
three continents. It's a drop-in solution.
What challenges do you see in terms of production,
distribution, and market acceptance of rD?
From the powertrain perspective, there's really no
concerns. It meets the same ASTM D975 spec that
every diesel engine is built to meet. That means we
can also work in the exact same infrastructure. In the
bigger picture though, there are some things that
could change. Right now, the core market for
renewable fuels is the west coast of the U.S. because
those states have low-carbon programs in place. The
fuel is going to follow the legislation. The logistics of
how you collect the feedstocks for RD also present
some challenges. You can take oil from Texas and
UPDATE
What are the different
feedstocks used to produce
these fuels?
We want our feedstock to be a
waste product that's already
gone through its first useful life.
Cooking oil, animal fat, tallows,
fish oils, and technical corn oil
are all things we can use. There's
also a lot of stuff out there that
we're not even using yet. Before
the hydrotreating and
isomerization production
process, there's also a pretreatment.
That's where we could
clean up some really nasty
feedstocks. We're really focusing
on our pre-treatment process so
that we can open up
opportunities to increase volume
and reduce overall cost.
What happens to the excess
material once you're done with
the refining process?
There's not much honestly. Once
we break the molecules down,
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