Haldor Topsoe A/S (Lyngby, Denmark) has announced that its Hydroflex technology has been successfully used to produce renewable diesel at a Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) facility in North Dakota, and a Phillips 66 refinery in California.
Earlier this year, production of renewable diesel at Phillips 66’s refinery in Rodeo, California, began, and the company has now reported a successful start-up at the 9,000 barrels-per-day facility. The existing hydrotreater has the ability to produce renewable diesel from pretreated vegetable oils.
“We are thrilled that Phillips 66 has chosen Topsoe’s HydroFlex technology for the production of renewable diesel at the Rodeo Refinery. This market-leading technology will provide Phillips 66 with a very low carbon intensity diesel fuel,” says Henrik Rasmussen, Managing Director, The Americas, Haldor Topsoe.
MPC’s renewable-diesel facility in North Dakota produces 100% renewable diesel from soy and corn oil with a combined capacity of 12,000 barrels per day.
“At Marathon Petroleum, we are meeting the needs of today while investing in a sustainable, energy-diverse future, and our renewable diesel production is a significant part of that commitment,” says Jeff Sexton, Marathon’s Refining Technology Director. “We’re excited about the success we’ve had with this technology at our Dickinson Renewable Diesel facility, which achieved its design capacity during the second quarter. We are looking forward to the conversion of our Martinez, California, refinery to renewable fuels production over the next year.”