(26b) Green Diesel Production from Vegetable Oil
AIChE Spring Meeting and Global Congress on Process Safety
2007
2007 Spring Meeting & 3rd Global Congress on Process Safety
10th Topical Conference on Refinery Processing
Advances in Hydroprocessing - II
Monday, April 23, 2007 - 2:30pm to 3:00pm
This paper discusses a new process technology developed by UOP and Eni S.p.A to produce green diesel from vegetable oil and illustrates the advantages this new technology can offer over other processing routes. This new process utilizes hydrodeoxygenation, decarboxylation and hydroisomerization reactions to produce a high quality diesel fuel from vegetable oil plus hydrogen at mild conditions.
The new process integrates well within petroleum refineries and the high quality green diesel product which is made from this process is readily blended with diesel fuel. Green diesel product has excellent cetane and is completely compatible with typical diesel fuels in contrast with biodiesel which has significant blending limitations.