ECB Group will build a renewable diesel biorefinery in Paraguay



Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.

The Paraguayan government and ECB Group, an investment holding company founded in 2011 by the Brazilian entrepreneur Erasmo Carlos Battistella, signed a memorandum of understanding on February 25 to continue the group's investments in the country. The largest of them is the first HVO biorefinery in South America. In a meeting at the Palacio de Los López, Paraguay’s president stated that the government will give all possible support to the project.

Figure 1. Signing of the agreement between the Paraguayan government and ECB Group

Name of the project
Omega Green.
Location
The unit will be installed on the banks of the Paraguay River and will have a logistic port and port terminal.
Estimated cost
800 M$.
Feedstock
Soybean oil, recycled animal fat and recycled cooking oil.
Hydrogen will be totally obtained through the electrolysis of water, not by natural gas reform.
Products and production capacity
16,500 barrels per day of diesel and renewable kerosene (enough to meet more than a third of Paraguayan consumption of fossil diesel).
Technology
Honeywell UOP’s Ecofining.
Employment effect
The industrial complex will generate more than 3,000 jobs during its construction and 2,400 direct and indirect jobs during the operation, in addition to increasing income for local farmers.
Timeline
- Start of the works: 2019.
- Full productive capacity: 2022.

In addition to providing an annual reduction of 1.3 billion tons in carbon dioxide emissions by replacing fossil fuels, Omega Green will have solutions designed specifically to strengthen sustainability, such as generating steam from biomass and the treatment of all wastes and by-products. The entire industrial structure will be supplied by world leader companies: Crown Iron Works in extraction and treatment of vegetable oils, ThyssenKrupp in electrolysis and Honeywell UOP in hydrotreatment.

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