Thursday, August 12, 2010

"Steady_T" challenges skeptic's erroneous comment

Skeptic's comment:
According to the EPA, there is no such thing as "pyrolysis oil based fuels".

Steady_T states:
They recognize renewable fuels which are Cellulosic biofuel, Biomass-based diesel, Advanced biofuel, and Renewable fuel.

Then there are Alternative fuels which include hydrogen, fuel cells, electric, natural gas, and propane.

And of course gasoline and diesel fuels.

Since there is nothing in the JBII fuels except the usual hydrocarbons, JBII pyrolysis derived fuel once separated into the appropriate fractions will meet the standards for gasoline and diesel. The EPA is not interested in where fuels come from, except renewables, because they are interested in the fuels chemical content. As has been discussed repeatedly, registering gas and or diesel with the EPA is mostly a paper work issue.

The EPA is interested in where renewable fuel comes from because they have to report to congress about meeting renewable fuel volume goals.

The list of EPA registered fuels doesn't have a category for pyrolysis oil based fuels because it has no need for one. Pyrolysis derived fuels are registered under the usual categories.

Selling the output from the processors will not be a problem no matter how you work the semantics.

There is really only one question, that is will the output be sold to refineries or will it be blended and sold as an end product. Perhaps it will be some of each.

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