ORLEN Unipetrol launched pilot renewable diesel gross sales at ORLEN filling stations.
The community of ORLEN filling stations has began providing a totally artificial gas – hydrotreated vegetable oil with 100% purity (HVO100). This gas is product of vegetable oils and waste merchandise within the meals and catering business, together with used cooking oil. It might decrease GNG emissions by as much as 90% in comparison with typical fossil fuels, which is absolutely in keeping with ORLEN Unipetrol Group’s long-term technique concerning sustainable growth and discount in carbon emissions. The pilot gross sales had been launched on the ORLEN filling station in Rokycany, Czechia. Increasing the gross sales to different filling stations within the Czech Republic and together with the gas within the ORLEN Unipetrol Group’s wholesale provide is deliberate for the primary quarter of subsequent yr.
Agnieszka Bobrukiewicz, a member of the Board of Administrators of the ORLEN Unipetrol Group, answerable for retail and advertising administration. She provides:
Our strategic ambition is to chop CO2 emissions by 25% by 2030 in comparison with 2019 and attain a web zero by 2050.
“We’re implementing many decarbonisation tasks in business and transport to perform these targets. In addition to constructing the infrastructure for battery- and hydrogen-driven e-mobility, we begin promoting superior biofuels at ORLEN filling stations, which allow our clients to cut back their carbon footprint considerably,”
“These actions are part of our technique targeted on decreasing emissions and utilizing renewable sources. In addition they adjust to the EU RED III directive and the Nationwide Plan for Pure Mobility of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic.”
This artificial diesel designed for passenger vehicles and vehicles is now out there on the ORLEN filling station in Rokycany and will likely be regularly expanded to different ORLEN filling stations. Other than retail gross sales, ORLEN Unipetrol plans to incorporate the HVO100 in its wholesale gas provide at first of subsequent yr.
Hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) is a contemporary sort of gas with a cetane score of over 70. It supplies higher beginning, smoother operation, and decrease emissions than typical diesel gas. It protects engines and filters due to a excessive chemical purity. It’s fitted to chilly climate and has longer storage occasions. The HVO100 is appropriate with a transparent majority of diesel engines with none technical modification. The brand new engines are even accepted for this gas sort (“XTL” designation on the tank lid).
It will also be utilized in railway transport. In cooperation with Czech Railways, ORLEN Unipetrol exams its use in Pesa motor models, 847 RegioFox sequence. The undertaking scheduled for 2024 and 2025 goals to decrease GNG emissions in railway transport by dozens of per cent.
HVO’s composition corresponds to an oil diesel fraction and meets the ČSN EN 15940 normal and the Directive (EU) of the European Parliament and of the Council 2009/30/EC concerning the standard of market fuels. HVO constructed from numerous sources has completely different qualities. The distinction is within the cleansing methodology, hydrogen consumption, and emission footprint. If HVO is constructed from a vegetable supply planted for gas manufacturing functions, the ultimate emission footprint consists of all actions related to its manufacturing. Nonetheless, it provides vital financial savings in GNG emissions (60-65% of CO2 equal) in comparison with fossil fuels. If used vegetable oils or fat are used, in addition to waste supplies, emission financial savings could make as much as 90-95% in comparison with oil-based fuels.
The worldwide community of ORLEN filling stations, which contains 3,500 websites in seven European international locations, provides this renewable gas in Czechia and Germany – in Boizenburg on the Elbe and Achim at Bremen. Gross sales in Poland is being ready.
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