Phillips 66 Co. has put into service a former conventional refinery transformed right into a renewable gas facility in San Francisco, California.
The brand new facility now processes solely renewable feedstocks and produces about 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of renewable diesel, the downstream power firm stated in a information launch.
“The Rodeo Renewable Power Complicated is on observe to extend manufacturing charges to greater than 800 million gallons per 12 months (50,000 BPD) of renewable fuels by the top of the second quarter, positioning Phillips 66 as a pacesetter in renewable fuels”, Phillips 66 added.
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The Houston, Texas-based refining-focused firm added that the transformed refinery might begin producing renewable jet gas by June.
“The undertaking advances Phillips 66’s long-held technique to develop our renewable fuels manufacturing, decrease our carbon footprint, and supply dependable, inexpensive power whereas creating long-term worth for our shareholders”, Phillips 66 govt vp for refining Wealthy Harbison stated in a press release.
“We’ve had sturdy execution to this point and are absolutely targeted on finalizing the undertaking within the second quarter”, Harbison added.
The undertaking, in response to Phillips 66, is without doubt one of the world’s greatest renewable gas refinery. “As a world-class provider of renewable fuels, the transformed facility leverages a premium geographic location, distinctive processing infrastructure and versatile logistics to considerably scale back lifecycle carbon emissions”, it stated.
Practically all domestically produced and imported renewable diesel are consumed in California because of the necessities of the state’s Low-Carbon Gasoline Commonplace, in response to the U.S. Division of Power (DOE). The division defines renewable diesel as “a gas comprised of fat and oils, akin to soybean oil or canola oil, and is processed to be chemically the identical as petroleum diesel”.
The outdated refinery had already been producing renewable diesel at a smaller capability by means of a hydrotreater that had the flexibleness to course of pretreated vegetable oils as a feedstock for the renewable gas.
The only unit had a renewable diesel capability of 9,000 bpd and served motorized vehicle drivers at 600 stations of Phillips 66, in response to Phillips 66’s announcement of startup September 7, 2022.
“Making this occur required procuring new feedstocks, repurposing pipeline and terminal infrastructure, and reimaging buyer websites”, Phillips 66 stated on the time. “Most critically, operators on the Phillips 66 San Francisco Refinery in Rodeo, California, leveraged their refining experience to course of pretreated vegetable oil feedstocks by means of a hydrotreater to make renewable diesel”.
The most recent information from the U.S. Power Data Administration (EIA) exhibits that as of January 2023 the nation had an annual capability of 196,000 bpd to provide renewable diesel and different biofuels. The variety of renewable diesel and biofuel crops on the time was 17, in response to the EIA.
Nonetheless, the U.S. has the accessible feedstock sources to triple its biomass power manufacturing capability to 1.1–1.5 billion metric tons yearly, in response to 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 gas within the U.S., in response to 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 embody winter oilseed crops, bushes and brush taken from forests to forestall wildfires, macroalgae and carbon dioxide from industrial crops.
“The report finds that the huge dispersion and number of these sources will be certain that the advantages of expanded biomass manufacturing lengthen to each rural and concrete areas”, the DOE stated in a press release 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.
Bioenergy had the largest share of renewable power manufacturing within the U.S. in 2022, accounting for 37 p.c, forward of wind (29 p.c) and hydro (18 p.c), in response to the newest annual information on the EIA web site.
Bioenergy produced within the U.S. is used within the type of liquid fuels, energy and warmth, in response to the DOE.
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