Mitsui, Cosmo Oil to carry out study to establish biofuel plant to produce SAF in Japan
In Japan, Mitsui and Cosmo Oil have agreed to carry out a collaborative study using industry technology from LanzaJet in preparation for the establishment of a biofuel production facility in Japan to produce sustainable aviation fuel.
The new business will combine Cosmo’s plant operations, jet fuel quality management, and trading operations in the oil refining business, with Mitsui’s ethanol procurement capabilities and LanzaJet’s proprietary SAF technology, in order to establish a SAF supply chain.
Mitsui and Cosmo aim to establish large-scale domestic SAF production operations at Cosmo refineries, using LanzaJet’s proprietary Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) technology. LanzaJet’s ATJ process is a technology that can produce up to 90% of its product as SAF and convert nearly all of the carbon from the ethanol to hydrocarbon products.
Category: Fuels
