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Vietjet on Oct. 11 fueled two flights with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) supplied by Petrolimex Aviation. The flights departed from Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City and were destined for Australia and South Korea.
Capacity to produce biofuels increased 7% in the United States during 2023, reaching 24 billion gallons per year (gal/y) at the start of 2024, led by a 44% increase in a category the EIA calls renewable diesel and other biofuels.
More than 1.99 billion RINs were generated under the RFS in September, up from 1.96 billion generated during the same month of last year. Total RIN generation for the first nine months of the year reached 18.58 billion
Southwest Airlines Co. on Oct. 17 announced a SAF supply agreement with Valero Marketing and Supply Co., a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corp., to bring SAF to Chicago Midway International Airport in the state’s largest announced SAF supply agreement.
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Expanding the Feedstock Arsenal
New and unique feedstocks abound for the SAF industry, offering significant carbon reduction potential for the aviation industry.
Carbon Rebrand
By Lisa Gibson
California-based Twelve is making SAF with carbon dioxide from industrial processes like ethanol production. Once established, the versatile technology will branch out into other fuels, chemicals and materials, all from CO2.
Refining a Cleaner Future
Honeywell discusses its novel Ecofining technology and the company’s role in the future of clean aviation fuels.
Connected Energy
SAF Magazine attended Clean Fuels Alliance America’s annual conference in Fort Worth, Texas, in early February.
BioForming Sugar to Aromatics (S2A) technology developed by Virent and Johnson Matthey has enabled the first-ever drop-in 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) trans-Atlantic flight by a commercial airline.
President Joe Biden on Nov. 16 signed a temporary spending package, averting a government shutdown that was set to begin at midnight on Nov. 17. The stopgap bill includes a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill.
Conestoga Energy and SAFFiRE Renewables LLC announced on Nov. 16 their agreement for Conestoga to host SAFFiRE’s cellulosic ethanol pilot plant at Conestoga’s Arkalon Energy ethanol facility in Liberal, Kansas.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Nov. 14 voted 336 to 95 to approve a temporary spending bill to avert a government shutdown. The stopgap bill includes a one-year extension of the 2018 Farm Bill.
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Aug 26, 2024
Carbon Rebrand
California-based Twelve is making SAF with carbon dioxide from industrial processes like ethanol production. Once established, the versatile technology will branch out into other fuels, chemicals and materials, all from CO2. Read More.
Nov 14, 2023
A Major Upgrade
The newly renovated Biomass Feedstock National User Facility aims to serve as a vital industry partner as the most complete feedstock preprocessing R&D facility in the world. In May, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm cut the ribbon at Idaho National Laboratory’s Biomass Feedstock National User Facility, celebrating $15 million in upgrades largely designed to assist industry partners in the scale-up of the sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) sector. BFNUF Director Lynn Wendt tells SAF Magazine that the U.S.-DOE funded lab’s first physical process development unit was actually installed in 2010, a time at which a modest selection of tools were available. “Now, we’re really the go-to lab for feedstocks logistics and mechanical processing, and really one of the only facilities in the world that has all these capabilities all under one roof,” she says... Read More.
Nov 14, 2023
SAF in the Big Sky State
Calumet’s Montana Renewables has set sights on optimizing renewable jet output to be North America’s largest producer. As of late February, Montana Renewables LLC claims the distinction of being the largest sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) producer on the continent, and expects to maintain that status when a planned expansion is completed next year. “We’re a couple weeks away from being North America’s largest SAF producer, and nobody knows it,” Bruce Fleming, executive vice president, tells SAF Magazine in late January. “We’re an operating company of engineers. We have our heads down, thinking about equipment all the time. And we didn’t tell our story.” ... Read More.
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