USA BioEnergy to build advanced biorefinery to produce SAF
USA BioEnergy through its subsidiary, Texas Renewable Fuels (TRF), announced the development of an advanced biorefinery that will convert 1 MM green tons of wood waste into 34 MMgpy of premium clean burning transportation fuel including sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), renewable diesel and renewable naphtha. Future expansion will double the plant’s production capacity to 68 MMgpy.
The company has secured fuel offtake agreements with a major trading and logistics company as well as one of the world’s premier airlines and will announce its partners and suppliers in greater detail in the coming months. In addition, the biorefinery’s demand for thinnings and wood waste will infuse the forestry industry in the Southeast Texas region with stable long-term revenue.
The plant will also capture and sequester approximately 50 metric MMt of CO2 over the life of the biorefinery. This gives TRF one of the lowest carbon intensity (CI) scores in the industry. The company benefits from state and federal credits and tax incentives created to incentivize development and offset the cost of renewable fuels.
"Biomass gasification is a well-established method of converting any waste stream into synthesis gas which can readily be converted into hydrocarbon fuels by the Fischer-Tropsch process and upgrading technologies. This approach is being used by a number of projects as it is more feedstock efficient than processes such as cellulosic ethanol production, which cannot use all the carbon in wood and waste feedstocks," said Dr. Robert Freerks, Vice President of Product Development.
"The gasification/F-T process is also easily adaptable to CCS as removal of CO2 from the process stream is inherent to the basic technology set. Thus, using biomass feedstocks with CCS, USA Bioenergy can produce deeply negative CI fuels which meet all customer requirements. The fuels produced using CCS will have at least three times greater reduction in GHG emissions than fuels produced using other types of feedstock. And there is vastly more feedstock available for expansion of this technology than there is for other renewable fuel production processes.”
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