In France, Airbus has performed a first A380 flight powered by 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Airbus’ A380 test aircraft MSN 1 took off from Blagnac Airport, Toulouse, France at 08h43 on Friday 25 March. The flight lasted about three hours, operating one Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine on 100% SAF. Twenty-seven metric tons of unblended […]
In Tennessee, a team of researchers working within the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has discovered a pathway to encourage a type of lignin formation in plants that could make the processing of crops grown for products such as sustainable jet fuels easier and less costly. The researchers focused on […]
In the Philippines, The Star newspaper reports the Ethanol Producers Association of the Philippines has pushed back against the government’s proposal to suspend ethanol blending in an effort to reduce fuel prices at the pump. The association says that it’s not the price of ethanol but taxes on fuel that are causing high prices, and […]
In Texas, AECOM has signed a strategic agreement with Genifuel Corporation to scale production of carbon neutral sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and biogas from wild algae and biosolids. The partnership employs a patent-pending process developed by AECOM to harvest wild algae and a patented process developed by Genifuel and the U.S. Department of Energy to […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration’s Annual Energy Outlook 2022 (AEO2022) Reference case, which reflects current laws and regulations, projects that renewable diesel supply (domestic production and net imports) will exceed biodiesel supply in the near term. It projects that renewable diesel supply will increase to 130,000 barrels per day (b/d) in 2022 and 145,000 […]
In Virginia, Governor Glenn Youngkin announced that Perdue AgriBusiness, a leading U.S. agriculture products and services company, will invest $59.1 million to expand its operation in the City of Chesapeake. The company will modernize facilities and increase production of its high protein soybean meal, soybean oil, and hulls, positioning the company to expand its soybean crushing capability to […]
In Australia, a report released by the Sustainable Aviation Fuels Alliance of Australia and New Zealand (SAFAANZ) titled “Bridging the price gap for Sustainable Aviation Fuel”, has identified, amongst a number of other recommendations, the creation of a Jet Council as an immediate priority action for Government to accelerate the significant opportunity presented by the […]
In Japan, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Engineering, Ltd. (MHIENG) and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering Co., Ltd. (MHIEC) – two group companies of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), both based in Yokohama – are poised to commence demonstration testing of equipment for separation, capture and effective utilization of CO2 emissions from a local waste-to-energy […]
In India, the Business Standard newspaper reports that sugarcane mills have complained yet again that oil marketing companies are favoring non-sugar feedstock-based ethanol in their procurement. The OMCs have said previously they are not favoring grain-based ethanol over sugarcane, but they are trying to get a better balance between feedstocks. The mills say the OMCs’ […]
In the UK, researchers from the University of Cambridge have developed an efficient concept to turn carbon dioxide into clean, sustainable fuels, without any unwanted by-products or waste. Their latest research has improved fuel production efficiency by 18 times in a laboratory setting, demonstrating that polluting carbon emissions can be turned into green fuels efficiently […]
