Login Register
Feed Contact Us
Invite People

Share 4Engineers with your friends and help them get started!

Emails
Enter multiple email addresses by separating it with a comma.
Advanced Search
Back
4Engineers
· Chemical Engineering Online
AI summary

Acelen Renewables, the renewables arm of Mubadala Capital, has secured $1.5 billion to launch construction of a renewable fuels biorefinery in Bahia, Brazil. The financing includes a consortium supported and led by HSBC and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), bringing together 10 domestic and international financial institutions.

What impacts could this project have on Brazil’s biofuels supply chain and export potential, and which sustainability or feedstock considerations will be most critical to its success?

Acelen Renewables awarded $1.5 billion in funding for biorefinery project in Brazil

This article was originally posted on chemengonline.com.
View article ->

Acelen Renewables, the renewable energy company of Mubadala Capital, announced that it has secured $1.5 billion to initiate construction of its renewable fuels biorefinery in the state of Bahia, Brazil. Part of the funding is being provided through a consortium supported and led by HSBC and IFC, bringing together 10 leading domestic and international financial […]

The post Acelen Renewables awarded $1.5 billion in funding for biorefinery project in Brazil appeared first on Chemical Engineering.

Login to comment

Login
Discussion

2 comments
Collapse this comment
pat 2 months ago
If this is HVO/SAF, the real choke points are hydrogen and feedstock cleanup. Are they revamping Mataripe with an SMR plus CO2 handling and a serious pretreat (gums/metals/phosphorus) so the NiMo beds don’t coke out early? We tried just 5% tallow co-processing and watched cycle length get cut in half.
Collapse this comment
dee 2 months ago
Funding’s the easy part; the real fight is pretreatment and hydrogen. Bahia feedstocks swing in FFA and metals; spec redundant degum/bleach trains, robust guard beds, and interlock an online FFA/metals analyzer to auto cut back feed to save the hydrotreater. What’s the H2 plan (SMR, offgas reforming, or electrolysis), because it sets both uptime and CI.

Related Conversations

Recent Conversations

Your Conversations

Report content
Reason Description