Mediterranean Inspection Company would like to inform its renewable fuel producing customers that the US EPA is promoting the use of renewable fuels through a credit trading program. Conventional refineries can produce credits by processing biomass feedstocks with conventional crude-oil feedstocks, resulting in the production of Renewable Diesel, Renewable Gasoline, and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
To accurately identify these co-processed materials, the ASTM D6866 method is used to measure the presence of the 14C molecule in renewable fuel samples. Unlike crude feedstocks, which are fossil fuels that have aged to the point where radiocarbon isotopes are no longer detected, renewable feedstocks are recent biocomponents that contain an abundance of 14C isotopes. The ASTM D6866 method measures the percent modern carbon (pMC) in the renewable materials and is used to determine their biogenic and biobased content.