Does biodiesel perform as well as petroleum diesel?
One of the major advantages of biodiesel is the fact that it can be used in existing engines and fuel injection equipment with little adverse impact to operating performance. Biodiesel has a higher cetane number than U.S. diesel fuel. In more than 50 million miles of in-field demonstrations, B20 showed similar fuel consumption, horsepower, torque, and haulage rates as conventional diesel fuel. Biodiesel also has superior lubricity and has the highest BTU content of any alternative fuel (falling in the range between #1 and #2 diesel fuel).
