Fuel Quality Standards (Biodiesel) Determination 2025
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Fuel Quality Standards (Biodiesel) Determination 2025
I, Chris Bowen, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, make the following determination.
Dated 16/02/2025
Chris Bowen
Minister for Climate Change and Energy
Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Schedules
6 Fuel standard for biodiesel
Schedule 1—Repeals
Fuel Quality Standards (Biodiesel) Determination 2019
1 Name
This instrument is the Fuel Quality Standards (Biodiesel) Determination 2025.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
- Commencement information
- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3
- Provisions Commencement Date/Details
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- The whole of this instrument The day after this instrument is registered.
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3 Authority
This instrument is made under section 21 of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000.
4 Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 4 of the Fuel Quality Standards Act 2000, including fuel.
In this instrument:
ASTM followed by an alphanumeric code means the testing method developed under that code by the standards development organisation called ASTM International.
biodiesel means a diesel fuel obtained by esterification of oil derived from plants or animals.
EN followed by a numeric code means the testing method developed under that code by the European Committee for Standardization.
mg/kg means milligrams per kilogram, and is equivalent to ‘parts per million’ or ‘ppm’ by mass.
% m/m means per cent mass by mass, and is equivalent to ‘mass %’, ‘% mass’ and ‘weight %’.
% v/v means per cent volume by volume, and is equivalent to ‘volume %’, ‘vol %’ and ‘% vol’.
5 Schedules
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
6 Fuel standard for biodiesel
(1) In relation to a parameter mentioned in an item of the following table, biodiesel must comply with the specification for that parameter mentioned in that item.
(2) For subsection (1), compliance with the specification for a parameter is determined by using the testing method for that parameter mentioned in that item of the table.
- Fuel standard for biodiesel
- Item Parameter Specification Testing Method
- 1 Acid value 0.50 mg KOH/g maximum ASTM D664
- 2 Carbon residue—10% distillation residue 0.30% m/m maximum ASTM D4530
- 3 Cold soak filterability 360 seconds maximum ASTM D7501
- 4 Copper corrosion—3 h at 50°C Class 1 maximum ASTM D130
- 5 Density at 15°C 860–900 kg/m3 ASTM D1298
- 6 Derived cetane number 51.0 minimum ASTM D6890
- 7 Distillation—T90 360°C maximum ASTM D1160
- 8 Ester content 96.5% m/m minimum EN 14103
- 9 Flash point 120.0°C minimum ASTM D93
- 10 Glycerides—monoglycerides 0.7% m/m maximum ASTM D6584
- 11 Glycerides—diglycerides 0.2% m/m maximum ASTM D6584
- 12 Glycerides—triglycerides 0.2% m/m maximum ASTM D6584
- 13 Glycerol—free 0.020% m/m maximum ASTM D6584
- 14 Glycerol—total 0.250% m/m maximum ASTM D6584
- 15 Kinematic viscosity at 40°C 3.5–5.0 mm2/s ASTM D445
- 16 Metals—Group I—Na, K 5 mg/kg maximum EN 14538
- 17 Metals—Group II—Ca, Mg 5 mg/kg maximum EN 14538
- 18 Methanol 0.20% m/m maximum EN 14110
- 19 Oxidation stability at 110°C 8.0 hours minimum EN 14112
- 20 Phosphorus 4.0 mg/kg maximum EN 14107
- 21 Sulfated ash 0.020% m/m maximum ASTM D874
- 22 Sulfur 10 mg/kg maximum ASTM D5453
- 23 Total contamination 24 mg/kg maximum EN 12662
- 24 Water 500 mg/kg maximum ASTM D6304
Schedule 1—Repeals
Fuel Quality Standards (Biodiesel) Determination 2019
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.