Renewable Heating Oil

What is renewable heating oil? There are a couple of options of fossil free renewable fuel oil available that are made from wastes and residues, but in general, this refers to RenHeat synthetic kerosene or to HVO heating oil (hydrotreated vegetable oil). The latter is a road fuel and will be more expensive in heating applications.

Also known as green diesel, or renewable diesel, HVO diesel fuel and RenHeat fuel are renewable fuel oils with differences that are both remarkable and distinctive and thus worth looking into a bit deeper.

At present, it is also often more expensive than fossil kerosene heating oil, albeit much cleaner burning and with a net 90% cut in net carbon emissions and substantially less soot and carbon deposits on burners.

It would be ideal if a stream of renewable heating oil on a lower or rebated tax rate became available. With Government plans to phase out fossil kerosene C2 boilers from new rural dwellings from 2025, it is likely that this will come about, in Northern Ireland there are a particularly high proportion of homes with oil-fired boilers so this will have to be considered.

Hydrotreated vegetable oil is made from used cooking oils, fish waste, and animal fats from the food processing industry, this is a synthetic man-made fuel from the ground up, thus offering the opportunity to craft a highly stable, long-life, ultra consistent, and very clean burning fuel.

ORDER RENWABLE FUEL OIL ON THIS LINK (BULK)

It can truly be said that the cost of renewable heating oil needs to be looked at over a longer term than just the per-litre price. It is far better for reliability of both boilers and compression-ignition engines of all types because the soot levels are so low, in trials in Cornwall over 12 months, the boiler engineers had never seen so little soot on an oil-fired boiler!

As an added bonus to the fantastic cold flow characteristics and high cetane number, HVO also notably reduces NOx emissions, is virtually sulphur free, and contains no fatty acid methyl esters (FAME) that is often responsible for blocking filters and growing algae in the tanks.

As at Spring 2023 the cost of bulk deliveries of around 500+ litres of this renewable fuel oil is around £1.80 + VAT per litre. Look after your expensive boilers and massively reduce emissions and air pollution by switching to a renewable fuel!

We also offer RenHeat furnace fuel which is another fossil-free bio heating oil aimed more at sites like factories, schools, and hospitals for larger-scale heating purposes.

Ideal for where clients wish to reduce carbon emissions and look after furnaces, if you can take an articulated tanker load of 38,000 litres of RenHeat fuel the price per litre can be around £1.65 + VAT at present.

Contact us on oil@lubiq.uk or call us up on 01324 309100 to discuss heating oil needs, we supply UK-wide.

Marine Gas Oil

Our MGO is marine gas oil to DMA 860 at the standard ISO 8217: 2017. DMA is the highest quality marine distillate fuel normally supplied as MGO ships fuel; it consists only of distillates from crude oil as distinct from residual fuels. We also offer a GTL (gas-to-liquid) as a low emissions diesel fuel and can arrange loading at the Manchester ship canal or most UK ports.

MGO fuel DMA with a density of 860 kg/m3 is used for running onboard generators, main engine running in SECA areas, or for tugs, fishing boats, workboats, and coastal vessels.

Download a specification sheet for our marine gas oil here.

Having a low viscosity, it is easy to pump this LFSO fuel around at 20 degrees Celsius without the need for heating in bunker tanks.

We can arrange for deliveries of fossil marine gas oil which is similar but heavier and higher density than red diesel oil/gas oil all over the UK to your vessel or storage tanks.

Please drop us an email to: oil@lubiq.uk or call us on 01324 309100.

Eco-Friendly Super Fuel

We are very excited also to be able to offer fossil free RenMarine Gas Oil which is hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) which comes in the specification EN 15940 or EN 590.

Typically used in high-speed diesel launches, cutters, and smaller craft, both marine biodiesel fuels are made entirely from waste and offer a net green house gas emissions cut of around 90% and NOx cut of around 25%.

When using these marine biodiesel options, you are doing your engines, crew, fuel filters, and exhaust scrubbers a huge favour! Leaving aside the eco credentials, these marine gas oils are stable, free-flowing, high cetane number, extremely clean burning and synthetic, made from the ground up as high performance and consistent GTL or renewable marine gas oils.

ORDER THE RENEWABLE MARINE FUELS ON THIS LINK

FAME-free HVO diesel can be used down to minus 20 degrees and stored for up to 10 years, there are none of the fuel filter blocking issues from waxing and bio algae, it is a miracle ships fuel for sure!

Bio Heating Oil

RenHeat bio heating oil is a sustainable ultra-clean burning HVO fuel that is manufactured in the UK from waste feedstocks like used cooking oils, wood wastes, and animal fats.

RenHeat is a worthy sister product to our range of renewable diesel road fuels and is more appropriate for domestic and industrial heating. RenHeat is compliant with EN 2869 Class D parameters, you can download a data sheet below.

Data Sheet Download

This bio heating oil offers very similar calorific values to fossil gas oil (red diesel) and is therefore ideal for crop drying, industrial boilers and other heating applications while offering more than 84% less net carbon emissions. Burners are kept amazingly clean due to the high purity and synthetic nature of the fuel leading to more efficiency and fewer breakdowns.

RenHeat is carefully blended by a British fuel producer from ISCC wastes and residues and is compatible with most oil boiler applications. Miscible with older fossil fuels, so that heating functions can keep operating with no interruption or costs and a substantial net CO2 reduction.

Large sites that can take a 38,000-litre delivery of RenHeat can expect to pay in the region of £1.50 + VAT per litre.

We are a small family business ourselves, so we will strive to meet smaller needs for this advanced HVO home heating oil through our network although the price will be higher than the above.

The astonishing thing about this eco-friendly fuel is that for every litre burnt, you are saving around 2 kilogrammes of CO2 emissions; this can often be an advantage in marketing your brand and products.

Please do, as a first step, give us a call at 01324 309100 or send an email to oil@lubiq.uk

The Green Alternative To Heating Oil That Is 100% Renewable

Green Alternative To Heating Oil

Do you need a green alternative to heating oil? A miracle fuel option is hydrotreated vegetable oil, aka HVO, which is a renewable alternative to kerosene heating oil which cuts net greenhouse gas emissions by more than 80%. Another is our RenHeat bio heating oil that can come in cheaper as an industrial heating oil.

A synthetic fuel that is stable, consistent, and clean burning, HVO home heating oil is a quick, easy, and clean alternative to fossil kerosene or furnace fuels that is made from waste cooking oils and fats. It is a 100% renewable home heating fuel and it is something that more and more will seek as a solution in heating rural or off-grid dwellings.

Initially produced by Neste, Eni, and Valero in Finland (see below), Holland, USA, and Singapore, HVO is now produced by at least 2 oil firms in the UK, including Phillips 66 at their Humberside refinery.

Download a data sheet on the P66 renewable home heating fuel/diesel

Valero Oils seems to show the growing interest in this green alternative to heating oil. They now bring in bulk HVO fuel to their terminal in Cardiff. Valero operates the Texaco brand forecourts in the UK and owns their own fossil fuel refinery at Milford Haven in Wales.

With the news that new homes cannot be built with kerosene oil-fired boilers after 2025, the search for new options is urgent and certainly HVO is a great option with small modifications required to boilers and pipes.

How can we help with your home heating needs? See our range including bunded tanks and bulk deliveries or drop us an email to oil@lubiq.uk

Below you can watch an informative OFTEC video about the transitional stage we are at with home heating HVO and its potential, there are around 500,000 homes heated by oil in Northern Ireland alone!

Family Business Launches HVO Diesel For Resale Offering

Hydrotreated vegetable oil is a fossil-free 100% renewable diesel made from waste cooking oils, tallow, and animal fats or fish waste.

It offers a huge reduction in net greenhouse gas emissions by up to 90% compared to standard diesel. HVO can be mixed with normal diesel or provide a replacement that helps the environment while engines and fuel tanks need no changes at all to run on this remarkable fuel.

Exceptionally clean burning, with substantially reduced soot and NOx emissions, HVO is a premium fuel that is good for engines but is not currently easy to obtain in small quantities except at a few truck stops.

This is where the LubiQ offering is a winner for forecourts, farm shops, engineering supply firms, garden centres, and garden machinery companies that can a branded package and some free stock to get your outlet started with selling HVO fuel! Point to note: HVO diesel can be stored for upto 10 YEARS!

We are a flexible and friendly family run business that is really determined to help you to think outside the box and offer this miracle fuel for clients to put in their vehicles, boats, ride-on mowers etc.

Resellers FOC Set Up Package:

2 x 10 Litres UN Jerrycans Of LubiQ HVO Fuel – FOC until you sell them.
1 x Yellow Drip Tray 33 Litres (so you are compliant) – FOC
1 x LubiQ Branded HVO Diesel Pavement Sign – FOC

Suggested Selling Price 10 Litre Jerrycan: £45.00 + VAT each.

Do you want to discuss this simple package? Please call on 01324 309100 or drop an email to oil@lubq.uk

See from this graphic Neste video just how clean HVO burns:

What Is HVO Diesel?

We have set out to provide some answers to to common questions of what HVO is this in this blog. The letters ‘HVO’ mean hydrotreated vegetable oil, a renewable diesel fuel made from waste products.

HVO diesel is a paraffinic fuel that has physical properties more like kerosene than mineral diesel. With good cold flow characteristics and storage stability, this high-purity synthetic fuel also burns cleanly contains almost no sulphur and consequently has notably less odour than DERV. The logo on HVO fuel pumps is XTL.

Trials of HVO diesel by the Port Of London Authority, among others, have shown very little encrusted soot on exhaust valves and tests by MTU Friedrichshafen indicate a particulate matter reduction of 80% without damage to power output. HVO is also known as green or renewable diesel which complies with the EN 15940 specification.

Download a summary of the Port Of London authority’s report.

Due to HVO’s eco-friendly credentials and clean burn performance, it is useful to understand hydrotreated vegetable oil in a bit more depth; it is also often called renewable diesel.

Hydrotreating is a process whereby long chain molecules are cracked and a synthetic, stable, and consistent renewable diesel fuel is made from used cooking oils, waste animal fats, and fish waste.

Due to the recycling of waste products, the net greenhouse gas emissions when HVO is used in vehicles or for home heating boilers, are reduced by upto 90%, aiding your journey to net zero with zero vehicle modifcations!

Goodbye To Blocked Fuel Filters

Being a man-made and very pure fuel with a high cetane number, and being exceptionally clean burning means it is better for diesel engines in cars, vans, boats, tractors, and trucks and emits much less soot and NOx.

This biofuel offers substantially better long-term storage characteristics than FAME bio-diesel and will not grow algae in the storage tank or block fuel filters.

Any diesel engine can easily run on HVO diesel without modifications, and it can be mixed with standard diesel with no problems so it is simple, green, and clean.

Decarbonising The Easy Way

Would you like to calculate the carbon emissions you will save with using HVO? Head over to the GOV.UK website to use their handy calculator (you will save around 2.2kgs of CO2 emissions per litre you burn).

Please see a simple chart for the carbon reductions below:

How about in cold weather?

HVO performs excellently in cold weather and is used heavily in Scandinavia where there is more than one producer like Neste and UPM. Users can operate down to minus 25 degrees Celsius without flow issues or clouding.

A new domestic heating oil?

Because of its clean burn and circular economy features, it is likely that HVO will be used as a home and business heating fuel to replace mineral kerosene. In trials in the UK it has shown very little soot build up in more than 12 months of use in domestic oil boilers.

New installations of kerosene boilers will stop in 2030 so if you are wondering what is HVO diesel and can I use it instead of kerosene?

The answer is yes, absolutely you can. Some minor tweaks and alterations are likely to be needed with existing boilers. Please get in touch by sending an email to oil@lubiq.uk to discuss your needs.

Below is a video tour of the Neste Porvoo biorefinery where HVO is produced; it is now produced in the UK by Phillips 66 in Humberside.

Alternative To Kerosene Heating Oil

Alternative To Kerosene Heating Oil With 85% Less Emissions

With the news of kerosene oil fired boilers being banned in new builds from 2030 it is important to consider an alternative to kerosene heating oil that reduces green house gas emissions and offers a cleaner burn for reduced boiler servicing?

The fantastic news is that there is a great alternative heating oil fuel available! It is called HVO or hydrotreated vegetable oil to give it the full title. We also now supply RenHeat bio heating oil for larger factory applications

This remarkable fuel is synthetic or man-made and is made from 100% waste feedstocks, with a net emissions cut of as high as 90% it is often known as renewable diesel (not the same as FAME biodiesel) and used in a host of vehicles both on and off-road.

In terms of its characteristics however, HVO is more like kerosene than red or white diesel, and while cars, boats, trucks, tractors, and generators need no modifications to run on HVO, domestic heating boilers may need to be adjusted before changing.

Boiler maker Grant Engineering and others explain in this video how little is actually needed in tweaking your boiler and fuelling apparatus; it is estimated to cost around £500 and then you can get going with a fossil-free alternative to kerosene heating oil!

Disruption and cost to change your heating oil is minimal and delivery can be arranged easily.

Manufactured from used cooking oils, fish waste, and animal fats, HVO is better for boilers and internal combustion engines due to the consistently clean burn and great storage stability. You can store HVO home heating oil for up to 10 years and it has superb cold flow and starting properties.

At present hydrotreated vegetable oil is taxed in the same way as white diesel is for road vehicles. This, and other factors, do mean that it is more expensive than traditional kerosene but with its multiple benefits and more US and European production coming online it is certainly a fuel of the future!

Surprising numbers of heavy trucks and construction machinery are already using HVO every day and we can arrange bulk delivery of it as your house heating oil, we also provide HVO fuel in small quantities in 10 and 20 litre UN approved jerrycans or IBC’s.

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If you need bio heating oil prices or to make an HVO fuel price comparison, please just email us at oil@lubiq.uk or phone 01324 309100. We look forward to working with you!

Download a data sheet on HVO fuel here.

Neste are a global producer of this exciting bio fuel, they published this graphic video showing just how clean fossil free HVO burns compared to other hydrocarbons:

Fuel Tanks By Atlantis Tanks

We are pleased to be able to offer diesel fuel tanks – both bunded static and portable fuel tanks. They are a UK producer and you can see videos of their facility and products below:

HVO Fuel For Home Heating Boilers

With the UK government stopping the installation of kerosene fired oil boilers in new homes in the next few years and climate concerns there are more and more folks wondering:

What is the HVO heating oil price per litre in the UK? (Around £1.60 per litre for bulk). Is it the right product for me at a rural property? Is it an example of green washing? Does it have a high calorific value as well as being green? Will my boiler need expensive modifications and break down more often? Just what is this alternative diesel fuel?!

HVO is, in our opinion, a miracle heating fuel, no less; it is a biofuel – also called renewable diesel and used in road or off-road vehicles – but one that has all the benefits of being synthetic (man-made from the ground up).

When crude petroleum is cracked into various products – a remarkable process that happens only at 7 UK refineries now – the mineral diesel or kerosene are natural products with variability whereas hydrotreated vegetable oil is more consistent, clean burning, with no sulphur, low odour, and made from 100% waste cooking oils, fats, and tallow.

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Standard FAME biodiesel that is present in all at-the-pump diesel (B7 and B10 means 7 or 10%of this) tends to cloud at lower temperatures and can grow algae in the tank, HVO suffers from neither of these problems and flows well down to minus 20 degrees Celsius; it can be stored for up to 10 years with far less need for fuel polishing.

Due to the use of 100% ISCC waste feedstocks and the excellent burning characteristics of HVO a net green house gas emissions reduction of more than 85% is achieved.

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With home heating boiler trials undertaken by Mitchell And Webber Oils which you can see on the interesting video on this page, the soot from the burners is very low where HVO has been used for a whole year:

Grant Engineering oil boilers and Harlequin Fuel Tanks also have very informative videos on HVO fuel for home heating boilers; they point out that in the region of a million homes in rural UK locations will need to source a green replacement for kerosene and HVO is a great product for this.

Costs for converting an oil heating boiler to run on HVO are estimated at around £500 and other than that it is a direct drop in alternative that will heat your home, farm, or office is a vastly greener way than fossil fuels and if anything reduce wear and tear on the boiler!

Would you like to know more or order HVO fuel for home heating boilers? Please see our range or drop us an email on oil@lubiq.uk today.

HVO Fuel Pros And Cons

What are the true HVO fuel pros and cons? Can we better understand the miracle that is hydrotreated vegetable oil and if it is the right fuel for your needs?

Read the LubiQ Fuels guide to the pros and cons of HVO 100% renewable alternative diesel fuel here.

Pros – Cut Carbon And Maintenance

HVO is a miracle high-performance clean and green diesel fuel, and vehicles, boats, or generator scan by run on HVO fuel without any modifications.

Being a synthetic fuel that is made from 100% renewable feedstocks, HVO burns with a substantial reduction in soot, smoke, and nitrous oxides. With a net greenhouse gas emissions reduction of up to 90% simply by changing fuel it just makes a lot of sense!

Would you like to understand more about problems or pros and cons of HVO fuel? Take a look at the video from Neste below as it explains a good deal about the background.

Cons – Cost Is Higher Than Normal DERV

It is quickly apparent that HVO renewable diesel costs more than regular diesel, so this is one of the cons. By the way, B7 or B10 refers to 7 or 10% biodiesel which is blended with refined mineral diesel, biodiesel is processed by a less advanced process than HVO diesel.

The more advanced nature of HVO renewable diesel yields a higher cetane number, excellent long-term storage ability (due to having no oxygen in it) and superior cold flow and start characteristics; it will not grow algae in the tank or need as much fuel polishing as traditional biodiesel.

Lack Of Forecourts

There are very few fuel stations where you can fill up your car, van, or truck with HVO 100 renewable diesel and this is frustrating for businesses, families, farms, or boat owners that want to cut carbon emissions. So, this is another of the HVO fuel problems.

We supply UK-wide in UN approved jerrycans or in bulk! Check out our range of HVO fuel to buy online here.

Limits On Feedstocks

Since HVO is made from waste products, there may prove to be a practical limit to how many used cooking oils and animal fats, as alternative fuels become more and more popular; this end game is not in sight yet, but this must be considered in the longer term.

Author: Ben Hardwick