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Sustainable Aviation Biofuels for Brazil (SABB)

Objective

​The objective of SABB is to carry out a comprehensive assessment of the technological, economic and sustainability challenges and of the opportunities to implement an aviation biofuel industry in Brazil, in order to create a high level roadmap for the future.

Category
Feasibility Study
Value-chain step
All
Type of pathway
All
Starting time and duration
April 2012 - February 2013
Stakeholders
All
Regional scope
National
Involved countries
Brazil
Status
On-going
Description

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The initiative has convene a broad stakeholders group to build a high level roadmap on local and international knowledge in a series of workshops. The scope of these workshops includes:
  • Identification of barriers and opportunities,
  • Identification of alternative paths and actions to be pursued with respect to feedstock, processing and delivery,
  •  Economic and environmental sustainability issues,
  •  Scenario building and discussion.
The final goal of the study is to deliver a public report with facts based inputs for research, business and policy agendas in order to develop a sustainable aviation biofuel with high GHG mitigation potential.
Project conclusions are to be delivered in February 2013.

Partners

​Boeing, Embraer, FAPESP, AIAB, Amyris, Andritz, Bioeca, Embrapa, Ergostech, GE, GOL, Lanzatech, Life Technology, Neste Oil, National Wildlife Federation, Petrobras, RSB, SGB, Sindicom, Solazyme, Terrabon, Unicamp, USR

Achievements to date

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Seven workshops have already been organised in the frame of SABB:

  • feedstock in May 2012 which reviewed all families of feedstock, including sugar and starch, lignocellulose, oil plants and wastes;
  • Processing technology in July 2012;
  • Sustainability in August 2012;
  • Policy and incentives in September 2012
  • Logistics and support in October 2012
  • R&D in November 2012

Project progress was presented during the 4th NIST conference on biofuels standards (Gaithersburg, U.S.A.) in November 2012.

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