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This course covers the key business drivers across the full biofuels value chain from agriculture and waste management, through biofuels manufacturing and to downstream markets, such as transportation fuels retail and chemicals industries. All set against a wider context of the energy transition and decarbonization of the refining industry.
Course Content
The energy industry is in transition given the impact of legislation in response to climat change, refinery. Biofuels will play an increasingly important role in the transportation fuels industry for gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and bunker fuel. The course will cover current and emerging process technology together with energy transition issues and industry developments with respect to decarbonization. The biofuels chemicals interface will also be discussed.
• Essential background on the biofuel value chain, together with its historical development from the earliest days of motor transport, through to a discussion of the changing regulatory environment.
• A review of market and pricing dynamics and how these will influence and by influenced the impact of the energy transition in refining industry in the short to medium term.
• Insight into biofuel manufacturing technology covering established ‘First Generation’ processes for ethanol and biodiesel, together with insight emerging technologies for ‘Advanced Biofuel’ development.
• Supporting background on conventional and emerging feedstocks for biofuels production, as well as insight into waste products that also serve the industry like used cooking oil.
• A review of the key players in the biofuel and feedstock supply chain to understand the structure of the market.
• A review of the strategic impact of the role of biofuels in refining industry decarbonization efforts and the need to better take advantage of the biofuels-chemicals interface.
• A review of market and pricing dynamics and how these will influence and by influenced the impact of the energy transition in refining industry in the short to medium term.
• Insight into biofuel manufacturing technology covering established ‘First Generation’ processes for ethanol and biodiesel, together with insight emerging technologies for ‘Advanced Biofuel’ development.
• Supporting background on conventional and emerging feedstocks for biofuels production, as well as insight into waste products that also serve the industry like used cooking oil.
• A review of the key players in the biofuel and feedstock supply chain to understand the structure of the market.
• A review of the strategic impact of the role of biofuels in refining industry decarbonization efforts and the need to better take advantage of the biofuels-chemicals interface.
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