HVO Adoption in Brazil: Challenges and Environmental Implications

• DOI: 10.20944/preprints202504.0636.v1
• Publication Date: 2025-04-10T00:46:11Z
• Authors: Nelly V. Pérez-Ra...; J. Ancheyta; T.Z. A. de Souza; R.B. Da Costa; D.J. Sousa; V.B. Cardinali; G.V. Frez; L.P.V. Vidigal; G.M. Pinto; L.F. Roque; A.P. Mattos; C. R. Coronado; Juan J. Hernández

Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) is one of the solutions for replacing fossil diesel with a clean and renewable fuel in compression ignition (CI) engines. This study focuses on benefits using HVO-fueled engines Brazil concerning CO2 emissions, compared other fuels Brazilian energy matrix. The analysis includes emissions from fleet over last 10 years, comparing them main fuels, traditional biofuels, anticipated introduction HVO to market. proposal involves triple blend diesel, biodiesel, HVO, progressively increasing up 50%, while maintaining current biodiesel concentration permitted (B13) reducing percentage. Considering past years (2015-2025), if this had already been 100% Net would have reduced by 77.4%, reduction 54.4% occurred 50% 20% 30% mixture. Finally, considering use next 15 20 could emit only 366.58 652.44 Mton 2030 2035, respectively, 1621.53 2885.99 which be expected keeps diesel. economic suggests that adopting generate cost savings approximately 12 billion USD under favorable production scenarios, reaching 12.93 2035 full implementation. However, costs remain high, total expenditures surpass those conventional 16 USD.