ASTM releases B20 heating oil specifications

ASTM International released new performance specifications March 24 for Bioheat, or heating oil blended with up to 20 percent biodiesel.

The latest iteration of the ASTM heating oil specification, D396-15a, will be published soon, according to ASTM. In 2008, ASTM passed a measure allowing up to 5 percent biodiesel in the D396 fuel oil standard.

D396-15a adds parameters for stability and allows a slightly higher distillation temperature for the blends, the same changes included in the D7467 specification passed by ASTM in 2008 for on- and off-road diesel fuel blended with 6 to 20 percent biodiesel.

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