https://www.nedo.go.jp/news/press/AA5_101805.html
In the NEDO project “Demonstration Study for the Construction and Expansion of an SAF Supply Chain Model Using Vegetable Oils that Do Not Compete with Food” , J-Oil Mills, Inc. has succeeded in producing 100% biomass-derived SAF using oil extracted and refined from the seeds of Calophyllum indicum and Pongamia, inedible subtropical plants that grow wild in Okinawa Prefecture and other areas. The neat SAF produced this time complies with the international quality standard “ASTM D7566 Annex A2”.
Calophyllum indicum and Pongamia are subtropical plants found in Okinawa Prefecture in Japan and in Southeast Asia overseas, and are mainly used as roadside trees and windbreaks in Okinawa. The oil content of the ovules of Calophyllum habokunoh is 40% to 50%, while that of Pongamia is 30% to 40%, and they can be cultivated in land that is not suitable for farming, such as dry land or land with high salinity. Since there is little competition with farmland used for food, and neither is generally suitable for consumption, it is expected that it will be used as a new SAF raw material that does not compete with food.