MOL Group has reached a milestone towards producing diesel gasoline containing Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) and Sustainable Aviation Gas (SAF) at its Slovnaft refinery in Bratislava, Slovakia.
MOL Group mentioned in a media launch that the standard of the merchandise has been verified by radioisotope evaluation by the unbiased specialist laboratory of Isotoptech Zrt, confirming the correct ratio of HVO. The manufacturing take a look at confirmed that MOL Group is technologically prepared for the manufacturing of different artificial fuels, it mentioned.
The corporate added that the HVO was produced utilizing oil from cashew nut shells and the bio part produced this fashion was processed along with crude oil. MOL Group mentioned it has been utilizing co-processing on the Danube Refinery in Százhalombatta for years. The method reduces the emissions of conventional fuels by mixing plant residues, because the bio and fossil elements are processed concurrently straight throughout manufacturing, it mentioned.
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The Bratislava Refinery carried out one other manufacturing experiment, ensuing within the creation of SAF by way of co-processing as properly. On this occasion, the corporate derived worth from waste by using partially refined cooking oil alongside standard uncooked supplies. The experiment demonstrated that the manufacturing unit on the Bratislava Refinery, used for manufacturing normal aviation kerosene, can also be able to producing SAF, the corporate mentioned.
“We’re technologically prepared to provide biodiesel of vegetable origin in addition to sustainable aviation gasoline. This might open a brand new chapter within the sustainable efforts of MOL Group: we provide our clients an rising selection and amount of fuels, thus contributing to the sensible vitality transition as properly”, Csaba Zsótér, Senior Vice President for Fuels at MOL Group, mentioned.
“The truth that Slovnaft has handed this take a look at is a affirmation of our place as an necessary participant within the CEE area. The competence in chemical manufacturing that now we have acquired over the lengthy historical past of the corporate should be preserved and developed consistent with the place the corporate is transferring and what sort of future we need to create”, Gabriel Szabó, Vice Chairman of the Slovnaft Administration Board and Vice President Downstream of the MOL Group, added.
Slovnaft and the MOL Group are collaborating with the Technical College of Kosice’s College of Aeronautics to check SAF.
Beneath EU environmental targets, SAF is to comprise 2 p.c of whole aviation gasoline consumption by all EU-originating flights this yr, rising to six p.c by 2030, 20 p.c by 2035, and 70 p.c by 2050, MOL Group famous.
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