Axens signs agreement with PKN ORLEN for Vegan® technology license
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
Axens has
signed an agreement with PKN
ORLEN for Vegan®
Technology License and Process Book Supply for the production of renewable
diesel and jet fuel, through hydrotreating of vegetable oils in its Płock
Refinery in Poland. The scope of Axens’ work includes the supply of process
books, catalysts & adsorbents, proprietary equipment, training and
technical services.
Press release: “Axens has signed an agreement with
PKN ORLEN for Vegan® technology license and process book supply”, 18/12/2019.
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Figure 1. Vegan Technology
Based on flexibility to operate either on diesel
mode or kerosene mode, the new unit would be capable of producing Hydrotreated
Vegetable Oils (HVO) for true drop-in high quality biofuels. Vegan
technology is able to hydrotreat a wide range of lipids and to produce
low-density and high cetane renewable diesel as well as renewable sulfur-free
jet fuel. Backed by fifty years of experience in middle distillates hydrotreatment
and hydrocracking/hydroisomerization, this technology is using catalysts
manufactured and provided by Axens. Vegan is used in the biorefinery that Total
started-up last summer in La Mède.