Communicator
| Sustainability |
Project evaluations ongoing to determine a new future for the Grangemouth Refinery. The Chemical Engineer, March 20th, 2025 Project Willow to focus on recycling and bio-feedstock... EY’s report made nine project proposals, including: hydrothermal recycling to break down hard-to-recycle plastics; dissolution plastic recycling to return plastics to virgin-like status; converting used cooking oil and other waste into alcohols; timber-to-ethanol production; anaerobic digestion for fuel production from animal waste and sewage; SAF production from hydrogenated esters and fatty acids (HEFA) cover crops; hydrogen production to power industrial plants, including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and ammonia factories. |
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Verbio has started construction to convert its South Bend ethanol plant into a second integrated biorefinery in North America. |
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Shell investing into Bio-Feedstock. I understand it is supposed to supply their Rotterdam Refinery? Wondering how much hydrocarbons will be replaced in the Refinery. Is there more information available? |
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Paris, June 28, 2023 – TotalEnergies is accelerating the transformation of its La Mède biorefinery (Bouches-du-Rhône) and will invest €70 million in 2024 to have the capacity to treat up to 100% of waste from the circular economy to produce biofuels. The investment, planned as part of the biorefinery's first major shutdown in 2024, will modernize the site's facilities so that it can process more used cooking oil and animal fats. Since 2019, the La Mède platform, which hosts the world's first French biorefinery, has been capable of producing 500,000 tonnes per year of renewable diesel. This decision is in line with the Company's objective to reach 75% of waste from the circular economy among the raw materials used to produce biofuels from 2024 as well as in the acceleration of the production of sustainable aviation fuels to position the Company among the leaders in this market. #bio-refining |
