5.2.4. Palm Oil Biodiesel

This measure considers partial substitution of diesel with biodiesel from oil palm, through diesel-biodiesel blends. In this study we adopted the technical assumptions used in [37] (see Table 9), where a surface required of 1.85 Mha can be used to establish oil palm crops dedicated to biodiesel

production. The introduction of oil palm biodiesel is planned to begin in year 8 with a processing plant that produces 140,171 t fruit/year and this capacity grows to a total of 117 plants with the same capacity by year 25. Finally, the cost structure given by [37] it is also assumed for this measure.
