Atlantic Biomass, Bionoid ink letter of intent to produce SAF from residual hemp biomass

August 11, 2022 |

In Maryland. Atlantic Biomass signed a Letter of Intent with Bionoid, with the aim of producing commercial quantities of sustainable aviation fuels from residual hemp biomass. 

The parties noted that this agreement will lead to the production of SAF and other bioproducts from up to 190,000 tons of annual residual hemp biomass harvests.

The first stage of this project will be based on hemp from Ecuadorian farms that are part of the Cannabis Biomass Production Pilot Project that Bionoid has recently developed with the Ecuadorian Center for Environmental Biotechnology (CEBA). 

“This agreement with Bionoid launches us on the commercial pathway we need,” said Atlantic Biomass President Bob Kozak. “And, we could not have done it without the Maryland Energy Innovation Institute. They took a chance on our lab science and with the Phase I funding we were able to prove it worked when we scaled it up. We can’t wait to build the prototype!” 

The team’s next task is to translate Phase I results into a prototype that will be the basis for commercial operations. “In Phase II we have three goals,” said Kozak. “First, the system has to be easy to operate while producing high conversion efficiencies. Second, it has to be energy and GHG efficient, and third, besides the initial design, it has to be the basis for future portable systems that can work in regions with dispersed farms like the Eastern Shore,” Kozak said.

Category: Fuels, Food & Agriculture

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