The fat comes from the gutting waste generated when processing freshwater pangasius farmed in Southeast Asia after the fillets have been removed for human consumption.
As with all the other renewable inputs used by Neste Oil, the waste fish fat complies with the strict sustainability requirements of the EU's Renewable Energy Directive, said Neste Oil. The batch can be traced all the way back to the fish farm. Waste fish fat is also accepted as a raw material for renewable fuel in the US.
The NExBTL renewable diesel cuts greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 84 percent when compared to fossil diesel and calculated over the fuel's entire life cycle. Using NExBTL diesel also reduces tailpipe and fine particulate emissions significantly.
"It makes good ecological sense to use waste and sidestreams to produce advanced, premium-quality renewable fuel, which is why our goal this year is to increase the amount of by-products and waste we use as raw materials by hundreds of thousands of tons compared to 2011," said Matti Lehmus, Neste Oil's executive vice president of oil products and renewables....
Neste Oil starts NExBTL renewable diesel production from fish fat
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