Shanghai Luming to supply biofuel to SkyNRG
September 27, 2012 Category Alternative energy, Environment
Shanghai Luming Environment Science Co has signed a letter of intent with Netherlands-based SkyNRG, a major jet biofuel supplier, to provide refined swill oil. The first 2,000 tons of biofuel were to be sent to the Netherlands at the end of July and would be used to power commercial jets after further processing. It will be used by SkyNRG’s client airlines, including KLM, Air Canada and Qantas. SkyNRG’s Managing Director, Dirk Kronemeijer: “We have a strong ambition on the Chinese market where only 2% of wasted cooking oil is recycled, compared with 70% in the Netherlands”. The waste cooking oil has large amounts of animal fat that can be processed into bio kerosene after refining and chemical reactions. After further processing, the fuel will qualify to power planes. Planes using the biofuel generate about 40% less emissions. In Shanghai, waste oil collected from restaurants reaches more than 68 tons a day. The government is tightening efforts to block swill oil from being illegally recovered and recycled and prevent it from being used in restaurants. Kronemeijer said the company plans to build a plant in China in the future to collect and refine swill oil into jet biofuel. The company has been looking for waste cooking oil suppliers from China since last year and tests on such oil have been satisfactory, he added. More than 15 commercial airlines have made test flights powered by processed waste cooking oil from the Amsterdam-based company. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, one of the three founding partners of the company, completed its first commercial biofuel flight carrying 171 passengers from Amsterdam to Paris in June 2011. It operated with a half blend of biofuel to regular kerosene. Chinese carriers have also made efforts to develop biofuel, the Shanghai Daily reported.
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