Valero, Darling planning major renewable diesel refinery in Port Arthur

[thackney]

Valero, Darling planning major renewable diesel refinery in Port Arthur
https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Valero-Darling-planning-major-renewable-diesel-14424412.php
September 9, 2019

Valero Energy and Darling Ingredients said Monday they're planning to build a massive renewable diesel refinery in Port Arthur.

The companies, which have a 50-50 joint venture called Diamond Green Diesel, would build the first-ever renewable diesel plant in Texas. They're currently in the early engineering and cost review stages, so the project isn't definitely going forward, but it's clear they want to make the project happen.

Renewable diesel is a much cleaner product that doesn't rely on fossil fuels, instead making diesel out of waste animal fats and waste vegetable oils, including used cooking oil and inedible corn oil.

Renewable diesel uses similar ingredients as biofuels, but it is more chemically similar to crude oil-based diesel and can more easily be used in conventional engines without as many blending ingredients....

[IsailedawayfromFR]

I wonder why this 'green' diesel made with fats and waste products is 'cleaner' product than diesel made with fossil fuels?

Is the word 'unclean' synonymous with anything made with fossil fuels?

[Joe Wooten]

I wonder why this 'green' diesel made with fats and waste products is 'cleaner' product than diesel made with fossil fuels?

Is the word 'unclean' synonymous with anything made with fossil fuels?

Its not, but there are big federal bucks for making it
YES

[Hoodat]

How many barrels of used cooking oil will the plant be capable of refining each day?  And is there a used cooking oil pipeline running through Port Arthur?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Its not, but there are big federal bucks for making it
YES

So the 'green' means dollars, not environmental.

Found this definition as well.  Can anyone translate it?

Green Diesel
Green or renewable diesel is a branched, paraffin-based, completely deoxygenated fuel produced through a catalytic reaction that includes hydroprocessing and/or decarboxylation/decarbonylation of triacylglycerols deriving from different renewable resources (eg, vegetable oils) (Kalnes et al., 2009).  https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/green-diesel