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SAF plant at the Gela biorefienry

Gela (CL, Italy), 23rd Jan 2024, eni press release

Enilive announces the commissioning of its first plant to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at the Gela biorefinery, in Sicily.

Production has started at the plant, which has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, representing almost a third of the expected European SAF demand in 2025, following the implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation. Regulation (EU) 2023/2405 requires aviation fuel providers to ensure that jet fuel supplied to aircraft operators at each airport in the European Union contains a proportion of SAF. The required proportion of SAF will increase over five year increments from a minimum 2% from 1 January 2025 to 6% from 2030, 20% from 2035, 34% from 2040, 42 % from 2045, until reaching 70% from 2050.

Since September 2022, Enilive has signed agreements with several airlines for the supply of SAF, thanks to the initial production achieved through synergies between the Gela Enilive biorefinery and other Eni facilities, using waste-based feedstocks. Enilive aims to increase its biorefining capacity to over 5 million tonnes per year by 2030 and enhance its optionality for SAF production to 1 million tonnes per year by 2026, with further potential to double production by 2030. These targets will be supported by ongoing projects at the Venice biorefinery and the construction of new biorefineries in Malaysia and South Korea.

The Gela biorefinery has the capacity to process 736,000 tonnes of biomass per year, which is primarily derived from waste and residual feedstocks such as used cooking oils, animal fat and by-products from vegetable oil processing. The innovative SAF production in Gela has been made possible by plant modifications, in particular to the isomerisation unit, which has been equipped with a reactor and a product separation section, as well as upgrades to the tank farm and logistics infrastructure. Investments to improve the feedstock pretreatment section, including the construction of a third degumming line, are nearing completion. These improvements will further enable the diversification of waste and residues feedstocks that can be converted into HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) biofuels.
 

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The description of the ENI | UOP Ecofining process has been updated.


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Description of triglycerides transesterification into biodiesel has been updated.

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Description of biodiesel has been updated.

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Transesterification of fatty esters was added a while ago, forgot to communicate about it.

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Total FAME biodiesel production in 2012 was almost 1 billion gallons and renewablediesel was just 52 million gallons. Fast-forwarding to 2022, total annual production of renewable diesel reached almost 1,483 million gallons, only 137 million gallons less than FAME. Consequently, renewable diesel accounted for 48 percent of total BBD production in 2022, when just one decade ago it accounted for only 5 percent of BBD production. #fame  #biodiesel  #renewablediesel 

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