Sustainable Oils, Solazyme, Cargill to supply 600,000 gallons of jet biofuel to US military

In Washington, the US Air Force has ordered a total of 400,000 gallons of renewable biofuels from Sustainable Oils, Cargill and Solazyme for testing as a military aviation fuel. the companies, in turn, will use UOP’s processing technology to convert oil from camelina, algae and animal fats into renewable jet fuel.

According to UOP, the military has ordered a total of 600,000 gallons of renewable jet fuel to be delivered in 2009 and 2010, in a series of contracts issued by the Defense Energy Support Center (DESC). For the Air Force order, DESC tapped Cargill and Sustainable Oils to provide jet fuel made from rendered animals fats and camelina, respectively; the Navy tapped Sustainable Oils and Solazyme.

According to UOP the orders are as follows:

For the Navy:  Sustainable Oils will provide up to 190,000 gallons of fuel from camelina
Solazyme will provide up to 1500 gallons of fuel from algae

For the Air Force:  Sustainable Oils will provide up to 200,000 gallons of fuel from camelina
UOP will provide up to 200,000 gallons of fuel made from animal fats provided by Cargill

Sustainable Oils executives said that the camelina for the contract was primarily grown in 2009 and harvested recently by farmers in Montana. The company also has several field trials in Washington State.

Here’s more on the Solazyme deal; and here’s the original Sustainable Oils announcement from early September when the order stood at 40,000 gallons. And here’s UOP reporting at the Paris Show that jet biofuels perform as well or better than conventional jet fuels.

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