Chinese researchers develop the country’s first industrial plant to produce SAF

In China, Global Times reported that a research institute in East China’s Zhejiang Province has built a device to make jet fuel from used cooking oil.

According to the reports, the sustainable fuel was made from used cooking oil via a device developed by Sinopec Zhenhai Reifining & Chemical Company in Ningbo, Zhejiang.

The report highlighted that this is China’s first domestic industrial plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel.

The plant can process about 100,000 tons of used cooking oil and produce 40,000-50,000 tons of SAF per year, according to the report.

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