US Renewable Diesel Capacity Expected to Increase… EIA

From the EIA’s This Week In Petroleum, here…

”Renewable diesel is often produced at a biorefinery or by co-processing at a petroleum refinery. Feedstocks are typically processed via hydrotreating, gasification, or pyrolysis. Facilities must also account for other aspects of renewable diesel production, such as feed pretreatment and processing coproducts such as renewable liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and naphtha. Some U.S. refiners are assessing the viability of converting current petroleum processing capacity to renewable diesel production capacity with existing equipment. For example, as a result of the challenging market conditions for traditional petroleum-based fuels and increasing market interest in renewable diesel production, a number of refineries have closed in the past year, and many of these facilities have announced plans to reopen as renewable diesel plants.”