Renewable Fuels
?Phillips 66 (Houston) announced the full conversion of the Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex, expanding commercial-scale production and positioning the company as a leader in renewable fuels. The Rodeo facility in the San Francisco Bay Area increased rates to approximately 50,000 bbl/d (800 million gallons per year), reaching the company's goal of achieving full capacity by the second quarter of 2024.? MORE
?Synhelion S.A. (Lugano, Switzerland) inaugurated the world's first industrial-scale plant to produce synthetic fuels using solar heat in Germany. By inaugurating the DAWN project, Synhelion proves that its technology to produce solar fuels is ready for scaleup.? DAWN features a 20-meter-high solar tower and a mirror field. This marks the first time Synhelion's innovations have been integrated on an industrial scale.? MORE
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?Global Bioenergies (Evry, France) announced that it has adapted its process for the conversion of plant resources into Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) to produce e-SAF, using acetic acid as a resource. e-SAFs are derived from the combination of CO2 and hydrogen produced from renewable electricity. In summary, the process involves feeding the bacterial strains producing isobutene (then transformed into SAF by simple oligomerization), no longer with plant resources, but with acetic acid. Most of the 5 million tons of acetic acid produced every year is obtained by combining methanol and carbon monoxide, which can both be produced from CO2 and hydrogen. MORE
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?Cespa (Madrid, Spain) and PreZero Spain have signed a strategic partnership that will enable both companies to advance in their decarbonization objectives. Under the agreement, PreZero Spain will supply biomethane from some of its projects to Cepsa, and the two companies will jointly develop biomethane plants. Furthermore, Cepsa and PreZero Spain will work on the recovery of waste to produce second-generation biofuels and circular chemical products and to decarbonize the land fleet operated by PreZero in Spain and Portugal.? MORE
?LanzaTech Global, Inc. and LanzaJet, Inc. are launching CirculAir, a new joint offering to convert waste, carbon, and renewable power into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and immediately accelerate decarbonization of the aviation industry globally. CirculAir is a breakthrough offering that provides an economical and commercialized alternative to Fischer-Tropsch technology to create eFuels, Power-to-Liquids (PtL), and Waste-to-Fuels leveraging the already ASTM-approved SAF production pathway that uses ethanol as the biointermediate and Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology to produce SAF and Renewable Diesel (RD).? MORE
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. (MGC; Tokyo) announced that it has begun producing bio-methanol at a just-completed facility within the company's Niigata Plant, becoming first producer of bio-methanol from digester gas in Japan. Last year, MGC concluded a basic agreement with Niigata Prefecture to purchase and sell digester gas generated at the Niigogawa Sewage Treatment Center, which is owned by Niigata Prefecture. In order to effectively utilize the center's unused digester gas, MGC installed shipping facilities at the center and receiving facilities at the company's Niigata Plant to begin producing bio-methanol using existing facilities at the plant.? MORE
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