https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101778.html
Under a contract from NEDO, Japan Green Power Development Co., Ltd. has succeeded in producing 100% biomass-derived SAF using a catalyst being developed in collaboration with Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology and HighChem Co., Ltd. The neat SAF produced this time complies with the international quality standard “ASTM D7566 Annex A2” .
The chain-length of fatty acids in coconut oil is similar to kerosene conventional jet fuel, which is expected to reduce the process and hydrogen consumption in fuel conversion. This result shows the possibility of mass-producing SAF, which has advantages in terms of production efficiency, cost, and the environment, and is a major step forward toward further scale-up demonstration.
Neat SAF was produced from oil squeezed from non-standard coconuts procured in Indonesia using a catalyst developed in this project. The oil squeezed from non-standard coconuts has a molecular structure (carbon number/chain length) of the fatty acids that make up the oil that is closer to aviation fuel than other SAF raw materials, so it may be possible to produce neat SAF with relatively few processes and reduced hydrogen consumption.