Technical Documents
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Environmental Laws Applicable to Construction and Operation of Biodiesel Production Facilities This compliance assistance manual serves as a road map of information on federal environmental programs and federal, state, and local agency roles as they apply to parties interested in designing, building, and operating biodiesel manufacturing facilities. This manual emphasizes federal environmental laws and regulations implemented by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and its state partners. Air, water, hazardous waste, accident prevention and release reporting are examples of requirements that might apply. This manual, like a road map, does not contain all details of the federal and state statutes and regulations. Biodiesel facility operators need to review the applicable statutes and regulations.
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Guidance for Biodiesel Producers and Biodiesel Blenders/Users The purpose of this document is to explain and clarify EPA’s regulatory requirements for biodiesel producers and biodiesel blenders/users. While the term biodiesel generally has a broad interpretation, as used in this guidance document, its meaning is directed specifically to biodiesel-ester.
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A Comprehensive Analysis of Biodiesel Impacts on Exhaust Emissions This Report presents a technical analysis of the effect of biodiesel on exhaust emissions from diesel-powered vehicles. It analyzes pre-existing data from various emissions test programs to investigate these effects. The conclusions drawn in this Technical Report represent the current understanding of this specific technical issue, and are subject to re-evaluation at any time.
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Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives: Changes to Renewable Fuel Standard Program; Proposed Rule Under the Clean Air Act, as amended by Sections 201, 202, and 210 of the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency is required to promulgate regulations implementing changes to the Renewable Fuel Standard program. The revised statutory requirements specify the volumes of cellulosic biofuel, biomass-based diesel, advanced biofuel, and total renewable fuel that must be used in transportation fuel each year, with the volumes increasing over time. The revised statutory requirements also include new definitions and criteria for both renewable fuels and the feedstocks used to produce them, including new greenhouse gas emission thresholds for renewable fuels.
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Biodiesel Handling and Use Guide, Fourth Edition This document is a guide for those who blend, store, distribute, and use biodiesel and biodiesel blends. It provides basic information on the proper and safe use of biodiesel and biodiesel blends in compression-ignition engines and boilers, and it is intended to help fleets, individual users, blenders, distributors, and those involved in related activities understand procedures for handling and using biodiesel fuels.
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Biodiesel Safety and Best Management Practices for Small-Scale Noncommercial Use and Production This publication addresses processing and safety issues associated with making biodiesel fuel. Biodiesel is a clean, renewable fuel that can be made from various biomass oil feedstocks such as waste vegetable oil, yellow grease, animal fats, and virgin vegetable oils. Small-scale biodiesel production has been growing due to higher fuel prices, a desire for energy independence, and interest in environmentally friendly renewable fuel production.
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Technical Information & Safe Handling Guide for Methanol, Version 3.0 Responsible Care® is a voluntary initiative of the international chemical industry, designed to foster continuous improvement in health, safety and environmental performance, as well as sensitivity and responsiveness to public concerns. The ethic ensures the safest possible management of chemical products throughout their life cycle, from the planning of new products through their manufacture, distribution, use, and ultimate disposal.
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Biodiesel Production in Municipalities and High Schools - A Primer The goal of this initiative is to stimulate interest in creating biodiesel from waste oil and grease to fuel diesel vehicles and equipment. This project is designed to provide multiple benefits by reducing harmful air emissions, protecting children's health, saving money by reducing fuel costs, and creating green job training for high school students.
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BQ-9000 Quality Management System Producer Requirements This document specifies requirements for a quality assuranc program where an organization needs to: a) demonstrate its ability to provide product that meets ASTM D 6751, Standard Specification for Biodiesel Fuel (B100) Blend Stock for Middle Distillate Fuels, b) address quality assurance through the effective application of the program, including process for corrective action and the prevention of nonconformity. The requirements specified herein are applicable to biodiesel producers. The process control requirements are prescriptive, while the remaining clauss are descriptive.
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Clean Cities Fact Sheet Energy efficiency and clean, renewable enegy will mean a stronger economy, a cleaner environment, and greater energy independence for America. Working with a wide array of state, community, industry, and university partners, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy invests in a diverse portfolio of energy technologies.
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Combined Sewer Overflows - Guidance For Nine Minimum Controls The Environmental Protection Agency's guidance document on the implementation of the nine minimum controls for correction of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). This document is one of eight being prepared to foster implementation of EPA's CSO Control Policy.
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Renewable Fuel Standard Program | Fuels and Fuel Additives EPA, under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (EISA), is responsible for revising and implementing regulations to ensure that transportation fuel sold in the United States contains a minimum volume of renewable fuel. The Renewable Fuel Standard program will increase the required volumes of renewable fuel to 36 billion gallons by 2022.
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TCRP Synthesis 72 - Use of Biodiesel in a Transit Fleet - A Synthesis of Transit Practice - Transit Cooperative Research Program - Sponsored by the Federal Transit Administration The nation's growth and the need to meet mobility, environment, and energy objectives place demands on public transit systems. Current systems, some of which are old and in need of upgrading, must expand service area, increase service frequency, and improve efficiency to serve these demands. Research is necessary to solve operating problems, to adapt appropriate new technologies from other industries, and to introduce innovations into the transit industry. The Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) serves as one of the principal means by which the transit industry can develop innovative near-term solutions to meet demands placed on it.
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USDA - Effects of Increased Biofuels on the U.S. Economy in 2022 Achieving greater energy security by reducing dependence on foreign petroleum is a goal
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Technical Documents
For Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) please click here.