euglena completes the construction of its demonstration plant to produce renewable fuels in Japan
Type of post: NEWS.
The construction of the Japan’s
first demonstration plant to produce renewable jet and diesel has been
completed. euglena, the owner company, issued
the official announcement last week.
Press release: “euglena Co. completed the
construction of Japan’s first demonstration plant for the production of
renewable jet and diesel fuel”, 2/11/2018.
Related post: “Euglena
demonstration plant for renewable jet starts to become reality”, 2/6/2017.
Location
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Keihin
plant of AGC (Suehiro 1-1, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan).
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Area
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7,787.6 m2.
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Feedstocks
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Euglena oil and waste cooking oil.
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Products and processing capacity
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125 kL/year (this figure will vary depending on the testing
implementation and maintenance development status) of renewable fuels (jet,
diesel and naphta).
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Technology
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Biofuels ISOCONVERSION process (known as the BIC process) licensed from
Chevron Lummus Global and ARA.
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Total investment
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Approximately 5.8 billion JPY (close to 45 M€) including subsidies from
Kanagawa Prefecture and the City of Yokohama.
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Timeline
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Beginning of the construction works: 1/6/2017.
Completion of the construction works: 31/10/2018.
Beginning of operations: Spring 2019.
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Figure 1. euglena demo plant
in Japan (extracted from the press release)
The demonstration plant has
been built in the framework of the Made-in-Japan Biofuels Project, a partnership
between euglena and the City
of Yokohama, Chiyoda Corporation,
Itochu Enex, Isuzu Motors Limited, ANA Holdings Inc. and Hiroshima
Council for the Promotion of Collaboration between Government, Academia and the
Automobile Industry (Hirojiren, member since June 2018).
The partners have just unveiled
a new declaration called GREEN OIL
JAPAN. Under it, they are working to ensure that renewable fuels are
introduced to land, sea and air transportation by 2020 in Japan. They aim at
expanding supporters using and producing renewable fuel across the nation and
to establish biofuel business as an industry by 2030. To this end, they are
looking to develop a commercial-scale plant with a production capacity of
250,000 kL/year by 2025, targeting to produce renewable fuels at 100 JPY/L (approximately,
0.8 €/L).