KC-CRD wrote:
From their site:
"Refined from recycled fats & oils,"
They are simply confusing the market, Biodiesel vs
Biomass diesel. It's about building brands.
They use the same feedstocks, but the process is different. transesterification vs hydrotreating.
It is A biodiesel, it is not Biodiesel.
This is not really about branding or confusing the market. "Biodiesel" has a technical meaning, and has over time come to mean FAME fuel produced through transesterification, as you said. Because of hydrotreating, this is chemically a very different hydrocarbon based fuel that has almost opposite properties to biodiesel (low aromatic and not FAME-based). It is more similar to synthetic diesel in its purity. It is also superior to both petro-diesel and biodiesel in significant ways (except maybe in lubricity, which is simply a matter of additives anyway).
"DieselHPR" is all marketing hype, as it is just Neste Oils renewable diesel from tallow and waste oils. However, "renewable diesel" is the accepted industry term for what they are making, and it is very different than what we currently know as biodiesel (except from being made form the same feedstock). I'd say its a biofuel-based diesel, but not biodiesel.
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