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  • Glossary item | Last updated: 14 Mar 2025

Hydrotreated vegetable oil

HVO is a renewable type of diesel produced by adding H2 to vegetable oil. The product has excellent properties with reduced emissions, and it can be used in all types of diesel engines as a blending component or pure form. HVO is in some respects similar to FAME as both use vegetable oil as raw material.

Erling Rytter, Magne Hillestad, Bjørn Austbø, Jacob J. Lamb, Shiplu Sarker, Chapter | six - Thermochemical Production of Fuels, Editor(s): Jacob J. Lamb, Bruno G. Pollet, In Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Primers, Hydrogen, Biomass and Bioenergy, Academic Press, 2020, Pages 89-117, ISBN 9780081026298, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-102629-8.00006-2.

Source category: Scientific Technical Literatur