Clean fuels

Axens has started up a 100% SAF unit at site in Asia, which has the capacity to entirely convert 300 000 tpy of renewable feedstock into high value SAF.

Vioneo has awarded a major contract to ECI Group for a project that will deliver a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) plant to operate using an entirely fossil-free feedstock in Belgium.

Green Plains Inc. has announced that it has entered into an asset purchase agreement with POET to sell its Rives, Tennessee-based, US, ethanol plant, for US$190 million in cash.

DNV has invested significantly to upgrade its Spadeadam research and development (R&D) facility, UK, to support de-risking the energy transition.

Asahi Kasei, Mitsui Chemicals, and Mitsubishi Chemical have established an LLP to achieve carbon neutrality and production capacity optimisation for two ethylene manufacturing facilities in Western Japan.

Universal Fuel Technologies’ (Unifuel) ethanol-to-jet SAF has been accepted into the ASTM D4054 Clearinghouse, which supports the technical evaluation of new aviation fuels for qualification.

Transition Industries has awarded Techint E&C and Siemens Energy a FEED contract for a 210 MW Electrolyser Facility for the Pacifico Mexinol project.

Syzygy Plasmonics will use Honeywell UOP Fischer-Tropsch (FT) UnicrackingTM technology to make SAF from dairy waste and renewable energy at an electrified biogas-to-SAF facility, Uruguay.

Five years after the COVID-19 national emergency was declared, gasoline demand, distillate demand, and jet fuel demand all remain less than pre-pandemic averages, the US EIA has reported.

Evonik has inaugurated its new world-scale alkoxides production facility on Jurong Island, Singapore – marking a major milestone in its global catalyst strategy.

Trafigura has signed a long-term agreement to supply LNG to Korea Gas Corp.

High costs have kept green hydrogen projects from taking off, but new regulations in the EU’s refining sector offers a solution to launching carbon friendly technology at scale, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.

thyssenkrupp Uhde has completed the pre front-end engineering design (FEED) phase for the Portland Renewable Fuels Project in collaboration with HAMR Energy, Australia.

Sumitomo Chemical has constructed and begun operation of a pilot facility at the Sodegaura site of its Chiba Works, Japan, for its new proprietary process to produce propylene directly from ethanol.

Finnish technology company Liquid Sun has launched an eSAF production pilot with ABB, Finnair, Fortum, and Finavia.