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.

Location
Keihin plant of AGC (Suehiro 1-1, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa, Japan).
Area
7,787.6 m2.
Feedstocks
Euglena oil and waste cooking oil.
Products and processing capacity
125 kL/year (this figure will vary depending on the testing implementation and maintenance development status) of renewable fuels (jet, diesel and naphta).
Technology
Biofuels ISOCONVERSION process (known as the BIC process) licensed from Chevron Lummus Global and ARA.
Total investment
Approximately 5.8 billion JPY (close to 45 M€) including subsidies from Kanagawa Prefecture and the City of Yokohama.
Timeline
Beginning of the construction works: 1/6/2017.
Completion of the construction works: 31/10/2018.
Beginning of operations: Spring 2019.

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).

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