Idemitsu Kosan advances SAF undertaking for Tokuyama petrochemical advanced
Idemitsu Kosan Co. Ltd. has let a contract to Chiyoda Corp. to supply important engineering works for the operator’s proposal to construct a grassroots plant for manufacturing of sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) at its Tokuyama petrochemical advanced in Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan.
As a part of the Dec. 20 contract, Chiyoda will ship front-end engineering and design (FEED) for the brand new plant that may use the hydrotreated esters and fatty acids (HEFA) expertise course of to provide 250,000 kl/12 months of SAF following its scheduled startup in 2028, the service supplier mentioned.
With out disclosing additional particulars relating to the order, Chiyoda and Idemitsu Kosan individually confirmed the FEED contract award follows completion of a feasibility research for the proposed SAF plant in August 2023.
The Tokuyama renewables plant—which is able to use the HEFA course of to hydrotreat a feedstock of biogenic waste supplies reminiscent of waste cooking oil, tallow, soybean oil, and, sooner or later, oilseed vegetation reminiscent of pongamia, to provide SAF—comes as a part of the operator’s broader purpose of supplying 500,000 kl/12 months of SAF to assist the shared purpose of Japan’s authorities and aviation trade to switch 10% of gasoline consumption by Japanese airways with SAF by 2030, Idemitsu Kosan mentioned in an August 2023 launch.
Along with the deliberate Tokuyama SAF plant, Idemitsu Kosan—supported by Japan’s New Power and Industrial Expertise Improvement Group’s (NEDO) Inexperienced Innovation Fund—to make use of the alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) expertise course of based mostly particularly on a feedstock of ethanol and different supplies (e.g., isobutanol intermediate) for manufacturing of 100,000 kl/12 months of SAF by 2030 on the operator’s 190,000-b/d built-in Chiba refinery and petrochemical advanced in Ichihara, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, the corporate mentioned in separate releases in August 2023 and April 2022.
Idemitsu Kosan mentioned the remaining 150,000 kl/12 months of SAF the corporate plans to produce the Japanese market with by 2030 will probably be equipped through the operator’s participation in abroad initiatives.
Abroad SAF partnership
In a March 2024 launch, Idemitsu Kosan confirmed its entrance a primary abroad SAF manufacturing collaboration with Jet Zero Australia Pty. Ltd., which is growing the PJ Ulysses undertaking within the Townsville State Improvement Space of North Queensland, Australia, in response to Jet Zero Australia’s web site.
On Dec. 18, Jet Zero Australia confirmed its award of a contract to Technip Energies (T.EN) to ship FEED for Challenge Ulysses, which will probably be geared up with LanzaJet Inc.’s proprietary ATJ expertise that may incorporate T.EN’s patented Hummingbird expertise for changing a feedstock of Australian bioethanol to ethylene, the latter of which is able to subsequently be reworked—utilizing LanzaJet’s oligomerization and hydrogenation expertise—into 102 million l./12 months and 11 million l./12 months of renewable diesel, in response to the businesses.
Whereas the events have but to disclose a exact commissioning date for Challenge Ulysses, the plant—as soon as on-line—is slated to produce one-sixth of the Australian home airline trade’s complete 2030 SAF dedication, in response to Jet Zero Australia’s official undertaking description.
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Idemitsu Kosan advances SAF undertaking for Tokuyama petrochemical advanced, supply
