Biofuel and Renewable Fuel Producers

Feedstock logistics

Renewable feedstocks behave more like food oils than fuels. Tallow and some grades of used cooking oil solidify at ordinary temperatures and need heated storage and transport. Free fatty acid (FFA) content and MIU, the combined moisture, impurities and unsaponifiables, set the price and the pretreatment the plant needs. Feedstocks of different origin or certification status are kept apart, because mixing them can undermine the claims made on the finished fuel.

• Heated tanks for tallow, UCO and other high-melting feedstocks
• Segregation by feedstock type, origin and certification status
• FFA and MIU sampled on receipt and recorded per batch
• Receipts by truck, rail and barge into one batch record

Finished product handling

Each finished biofuel has its own handling profile. Some move almost exactly like conventional fuels; others need heat, dry storage or dedicated equipment. We store each to its specification and keep batch identity intact from receipt to outbound loading, so the product you sell is the product your records describe.

Chain-of-custody models

Certification schemes recognize several ways of tracking sustainable material through a supply chain. Under identity preservation, a batch is kept physically separate from source to end user. Under segregation, certified material is kept apart from uncertified material but may be mixed with other certified batches. Under mass balance, the two may be physically mixed, and the sustainable share is tracked in a bookkeeping account.

The model is your decision, set by the scheme and by your customers. Our job is to run the tanks so that the model is physically true, and to keep records that let your auditor verify it without relying on our word. Where a tank serves a mass balance account, inputs and outputs are reconciled for each balancing period.

Records for credit and certification programs

Under the Renewable Fuel Standard, renewable identification numbers (RINs) are generated with the fuel and tracked through the EPA Moderated Transaction System (EMTS). Low carbon fuel standards assign each fuel pathway a carbon intensity score, and ISCC requires a sustainability declaration to travel with each delivery. The credits are yours to manage. We supply the physical evidence they rest on: volumes, dates, product identity and transfer documents.