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Used cooking oil glossary: quality, shipping and fuel terminology
Use this glossary to distinguish material identity, quality measurements, trade documents and fuel applications. Each definition connects to a guide for the buying or selling decision.
UCO — used cooking oil
Oil that has already been used for cooking. It is a feedstock description, not a finished-fuel specification or proof of sustainability eligibility.
Related practical guide →FFA — free fatty acids
An acidity measurement reported on a stated calculation basis. An FFA percentage needs its reference fatty acid and method to be compared with another result.
Related practical guide →Acid value
An acidity measure with its own unit and reporting basis. It is not numerically interchangeable with an FFA percentage without the agreed conversion basis.
Related practical guide →MIV — moisture, impurities and volatiles
A commercial combined quality expression. The contract must define included components, analytical methods and how the combined result is calculated.
Related practical guide →COA — certificate of analysis
A report of analytical results for an identified sample. Confirm its lot reference, sample date, laboratory, units and methods; it does not establish collection origin.
Related practical guide →TDS — technical data sheet
A description of indicative or proposed specifications. A TDS is not a measurement of the offered lot and does not replace a COA.
Related practical guide →RFQ — request for quotation
A buyer's request for a commercial price offer against a defined requirement. Quantity, acceptance criteria, delivery place and required documents make responses comparable.
Related practical guide →Incoterms — delivery rules
ICC rules used to allocate specified delivery obligations, costs and risks. State the selected rule and named place; the sales contract still needs payment and quality terms.
Related practical guide →FOB — free on board
A rule for sea or inland-waterway transport with delivery on board at the named shipment port. Confirm suitability for the actual transport and loading arrangement.
Related practical guide →FCA — free carrier
A delivery rule using a named place where the seller delivers to the nominated carrier or other person under the rule. Specify the precise location and loading responsibilities.
Related practical guide →CIF — cost, insurance and freight
A sea or inland-waterway rule involving seller-arranged freight and insurance to the named destination port. Paying those costs does not make risk transfer occur at destination.
Related practical guide →ISCC — sustainability certification system
A certification system whose applicable documents, operator status and scope must be checked against the buyer's requirement. A logo does not prove shipment eligibility.
Related practical guide →UDB — Union Database
The European Commission's traceability framework for relevant renewable and recycled-carbon fuel chains. Determine operator and transaction-record requirements for the actual chain.
Related practical guide →UCOME — biodiesel from used cooking oil
A methyl-ester biodiesel derived from UCO. The incoming oil and finished biodiesel require different acceptance specifications.
Related practical guide →HVO — hydrotreated vegetable oil
A term associated with renewable diesel produced through hydrotreating lipid feedstocks. Despite the name, eligible feedstocks are not limited to virgin vegetable oil.
Related practical guide →SAF — sustainable aviation fuel
An aviation-fuel category involving qualifying feedstocks and conversion pathways. Offering UCO does not itself establish finished-fuel approval or scheme eligibility.
Related practical guide →Flexitank
A liquid transport system installed in a suitable freight container. Material compatibility, carrier acceptance, payload and receiving arrangements must be confirmed.
Related practical guide →Accepted tonne
The quantity basis remaining after the assumed loss or unaccepted material in a cost comparison. It is an arithmetic assumption until actual measurement and contract acceptance establish it.
Related practical guide →English and French editorial text; additional language versions are machine-assisted and have not received independent linguistic review.
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