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Neste-led project verified 50% methane emission reduction at palm oil mills using belt filter press

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Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. A belt filter dewaters by applying pressure to solids to squeeze out the water. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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‘Business-as-usual’ projections of future conversion rates, based on historical rates over the past two decades, indicate that 6–9 Mha of peatland in insular Southeast Asia may be converted to plantations by the year 2020, unless land use planning policies or markets for products change. —Miettinen et al. Earlier post.). Miettinen, J.,

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Study finds GHG emissions associated with palm oil production have been significantly underestimated; implications for carbon intensity of biofuels as well as biofuel policies in Europe

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It should be noted that none of these values explicitly consider local factors promoting GHG emission other than water depth (e.g., Development of tropical peatland for agriculture and plantations requires radical changes in the vegetation cover. fertilization, land use history) or regional geographical variations.

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