FAQ About HVO Fuel

What does the term HVO mean?

It means hydrotreated vegetable oil.

What is HVO fuel?

It is a paraffinic fossil-free diesel fuel and direct drop-in alternative to fossil white diesel.

Are its characteristics similar?

HVO is more like a kerosene or paraffin and has much less smell than white diesel partly because it has very little sulphur.

Is HVO green?

Yes, being produced from 100% waste cooking oils and fats it is very eco-friendly.

The feedstocks that go into HVO renewable heating oil

What fuel quality grade is HVO in the UK?

It conforms to EN 15940 standard.

Is HVO made in the UK?

Increasingly yes, it is, having started off in Finland, Holland, USA, and France.

Is it available at the pump?

In the UK hardly at all, in the above countries and Scandinavia yes.

Can you mix HVO with standard white DERV B7?

Yes, no problem, emitts much less soot and NOx emissions also.

Carbon Reduction Plan With HVO

Does it reduce net green house gas emissions?

Yes, hugely, up to 90% in fact, it is a real low emissions diesel fuel.

Do vehicles use less AdBlue?

Yes, around 20% less.

Does it grow algae or cloud in cold weather?

No, it is useable down to -20 C, HVO fuel is used a lot in Nordic states.

FAQs About HVO Fuel

How long can you store HVO fuel for?

For up to 10 years. It will nor block fuel filters as spoken of here on GAP Group plant hire website.

What Are The Differences Between FAME Biodiesel And HVO?

They both use similar waste feedstocks but HVO is cracked and reacted with hydrogen which produces a superior stability and consistency which does not have oxygen in it and thus will not grow algae in the tank as fatty acid methyl esther (FAME) biodiesel tends to.

In general it is not advisable to mix FAME product with normal diesel at higher than 10% (you’ll notice the term B7 on the pump handle, that means ‘biodiesel 7%’).

Find out more about FAME bidiesel in this ‘Lubrication Explained’ video below:

Carbon Reduction Plan UK

Carbon Reduction Plan UK

A carbon reduction plan UK is needed for companies and organisations focused on meeting the climate emergency and tender for business; one easy way to implement this is to use HVO fuel in plant, cars, and vans.

Carbon Reduction Plan UK

Reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a key part of the journey to net zero and limiting global warming with rising sea levels offering a very real threat to human communities.

With fossil-free HVO fuel being made from 100% waste feedstocks, there is a net greenhouse gas emissions reduction of as high as 90% when compared to normal diesel, a vital component in any carbon reduction plan with several additional benefits:

  • A synthetic fuel, hydrotreated vegetable oil is a super-premium clean burning renewable diesel that is far better for engines and common rail injectors. Diesel soot and particulates are greatly reduced and AdBlue usage is also reduced.
  • No changes are required to engines and fuel systems and the product can be mixed with normal diesel. This means all your existing vans, pick-ups, cars, trucks, excavators, and trucks don’t need replacing, never was a carbon reduction plan so convenient as when HVO is considered!

Carbon reduction plan graph when using HVO fuel

Make the switch over to the circular economy easier and greatly reduce fuel filter issues by adding a commitment to HVO fuel in your carbon reduction plan, with our onsite fuelling service and diesel dispense tanks we can back you all the way.

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See links to various UK documents below:

NHS England CRP Requirements

GOV.UK CRP Policies

PwC Carbon Reduction Plan

How To Reduce Car Emissions For MOT

How To Reduce Car Emissions For MOT

Are you wondering how to reduce car emissions for MOT testing of your diesel car or van? One simple and straightforward legal answer is to run the vehicle on HVO diesel fuel.

how to reduce car emissions for mot

Obviously there are other answers to the question including changing the DPF (diesel particulate filter) or checking that exhaust SCR catalyst but these are frequently a high cost option whereas running a road going vehicle on hydrotreated vegetable oil can make a lot of sense.

Why is this, and what is HVO? This is a good question when faced with a diesel car failed MOT on emissions.

HVO fuel actually goes to the heart of the problem and burns far cleaner in the engine than standard diesel and sorts the GHG (green house gas) emissions at source and is a stable, non-fossil, synthetic green diesel that can be stored for more than 9 years.

The emissions of CO are cut by upto 90% and both nitrous oxides and soot also considerably cut as well. In the context of cars and vans, HVO green diesel fuel basically renders DPF and catalysts less needed and reduces AdBlue useage also.

HVO Diesel Fuel

If you are wondering how to reduce emissions on a diesel car or how to reduce diesel emissions for the MOT test, our HVO fuel in 20 litre UN approved jerrycans is a simple and great value answer.

Order simply online and we deliver all over the country.

The fuel tank, pump and system on your car, van, or boat needs no modifications at all, the fuel is 100% renewable, burns exceptionally well, and can be mixed with normal diesel.

how to reduce car emissions for mot

HVO 100 fuel meets EN 15940 standard for use as direct alternative for normal diesel within generators, power washers, chippers, excavators, dumpers, concrete mixers, cars, vans, and trucks.

Furnace Fuel Oil

Renewable Furnace Fuel Oil

Sometimes known as commercial or industrial heating oil, our renewable furnace fuel oil is the perfect option for replacing gas oil with a clean-burning, cheaper, and ecologically sound renewable heating fuel.

RenHeat can be quickly used in commercial heating boilers, furnaces, foundries, or for drying cereals without needing to invest in new boilers or even speaking with a boiler engineer. It has similar calorific values to IHO but is synthetically produced from waste feedstocks.

Furnace Fuel

This boiler fuel is an advanced eco-friendly drop-in alternative to red gas oil that gives an excellent calorific value and dramatically reduces net carbon emissions by between 84 and 94%.

RenHeat is compliant to the BS EN 2869 standard Class D parameters but please note it is illegal to use it in vehicles like forklifts, vans, trucks, or cars.

Cheaper than HVO, this renewable furnace fuel oil price is finding more and more interest as a premium UK made product that is produced from 100% ISCC certified waste feedstocks.

For reasons of its good cost per litre, eco credentials, and better interaction with burners yielding greatly reduced soot levels, this synthetic fuel is well worth checking out!

Road tanker carrying furnace fuel.

RenHeat should be stored in a bunded tank on your site before use; the density is lower than red diesel and the colour is a yellow straw tone.

Download The Renewable IHO Data Sheet

Place You First Order For Bulk RenHeat On This Link

Please send us an email to oil@lubiq.uk for details and a quote.

HVO Fuel Pallet Is Launched

HVO Fuel Pallet Service Is Launched

LubiQ Fuels needs to innovate to bring better availability of hydrotreated vegetable oil fuel for users that own a boat, work in construction, or need better handling than a metal 205 litre/45 gallon barrel offers.

Enter the HVO fuel pallet – have a look at details and prices on the link.

Containing 8 or 10 x UN jerrycans and a filler nozzle attachment with a total of 205 litres of white renewable diesel strapped onto a Euro pallet that is shipped anywhere in the UK for quick and easy handling. (extra carriage for Cornwall or off shore)

With the considerable emphasis on reducing carbon when HVO is used, it is easy to forget that this remarkable fuel is also very good for your engines, won’t block fuel filters, and reduces NOx, soot levels and AdBlue usage as well.

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Renewable Heating Oil

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.

Renewable Heating Oil

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.

Renewable Heating Oil Suppliers

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!

The feedstocks that go into HVO renewable heating oil

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.

Renewable Fuel Oil

Marine Gas Oil

Marine Gas Oil

Low Carbon Fuel For Boats

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.

Marine Biodiesel

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

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.

Bio Heating Oil

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. 

Industrial Bio Heating Oil

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.

Bio Heating Oil

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.

Green Alternative To 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.

HVO Diesel Refinery Finland

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.

Green Alternative To Heating Oil

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!