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Foreword
To meet updated transport fuel targets within the European
Commission’s Fit for 55 package set out in July 2021 – including a 13%
reduction in GHG intensity of transport fuels by 2030, covering all transport
modes, and tightening of the EU ETS aviation fuel cap via the linear reduction
factor, from 2.2% to 4.2% – will require continued and significant investment
into the development and deployment of biofuel technologies. According to
Statista, in both 2006 and 2007, global investment in biofuel technology was
over $26 billion annually, however there has been a general downward annual
trend since these highs, to around ~12% of the of these levels, in 2019.
One of the eight
certified conversion platforms for commercial SAF production is Alcohol to Jet
(AtJ). In the AtJ process, oxygen is removed from the raw material of choice –
either ethanol or iso-butanol – and resulting repeating units are linked via
oligomerisation reactions to achieve desired carbon chain length of SAF
molecules. Recently, green fuel producers Swedish Biofuels has teamed with engineering
consultancy COWI, to supply 400,000 tonnes of SAF to the Swedish market, via
the AtJ method...
Other news this month includes:
Policy
- India to hit 10% biofuel blending target
- DfT update on development fuel production
- Germany nervous on crop derived fuels after Russia invades Ukraine
Markets
- Air Products and Worlds Energy team up on SAF
- SGP BioEnergy announces world's largest advanced biofuel production facility
- More...
Research and Development
- Honda may commercialise algae-growing technology for carbon capture and
biofuel
Bioethanol
- Detrimental environmental claims made on US ethanol undermined after review
- 2G ethanol plant for Poland
- US ethanol with carbon capture proposals
Biodiesel
Aviation and Shipping Biofuel
- Aemetis to supply SAF to JetBlue
- UK competition for transatlantic biofuel fuelled flight
Other Biofuels
- Dutch methanol with carbon capture
- EU to increase electrolyser capacity for fuels and other uses
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Events