Chevron Lummus Global announces startup of Euglena biofuels unit

Photo: Euglena Co. Ltd.

July 21, 2020

BY Chevron Lummus Global

Chevron Lummus Global and Applied Research Associates Inc. announced the successful startup of Euglena Co. Ltd.’s integrated Biofuels Isoconversion unit in Yokohama, Japan.  

The 5 barrel per day, first-of-its-kind demonstration unit employs the Biofuels Isoconversion technology, jointly developed by CLG and ARA, to produce renewable jet fuel and renewable diesel out of an algae oil blend and waste vegetable oil.

Euglena Co. has successfully started up the demo unit in 2020, and its renewable diesel products have met all specifications of the Japanese standard of diesel fuel, JIS K2204. It has started supplying renewable diesel to local bus services for passenger transportation in Japan. Euglena Co. also plans to produce a renewable jet fuel that meets the ASTM D7566 Annex 6 specifications and supply it to commercial flights in Japan.
 
Biofuels Isoconversion technology consists of hydrothermal conversion and hydroprocessing operations that convert waste fats, oils and greases into jet fuel and diesel that are virtually indistinguishable from their petroleum counterparts. This will result in more than 80 percent reductions in lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions compared to petroleum, once it is commercialized. ReadiJet and ReadiDiesel, produced from the Biofuels Isoconversion technology, contain a uniform distribution of all hydrocarbon types observed in petroleum fuels, including aromatic, cycloparaffin, isoparaffin and normal paraffin compounds, and are able to be directly blended with petroleum fuels.
 
ASTM International has approved the new production pathway for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) called “Catalytic Hydrothermolysis Jet,” or CHJ.  Euglena Co. intends to deliver CHJ for commercial flights in the coming years through the use of the Biofuels Isoconversion technology.
 
“CLG is proud to be a part of the successful demonstration of the Biofuels Isoconversion technology at Euglena Co. and looks forward to implementing it at larger scale at several other locations around the world,” said Thad Sauvain, CLG’s director of global sales and licensing.
 
Chuck Red, ARA’s vice president of fuels development, said, “We are excited to see Euglena Co. take this meaningful step forward in its bold quest to become a leader in the production of low carbon intensity sustainable aviation fuel from algae and waste fats, oils and greases.”

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