Industries
Advanced Biofuels, SAF & Biorefining 2.0
What changes this industry: bio-solutions with evidence, technologies, suppliers and open money.
Overview of the industry
Fuels converted from biomass and waste at refinery scale: sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel, biomethane, bio-LNG and biomethanol for shipping, gasification with Fischer-Tropsch, biomass hydrogen, and the certificates and futures that trade them. First-generation fuels and heat-and-power remain under Energy.
What it replaces 0
No graded substitution linked yet.
Technologies 11
| Advanced biofuels (SAF, renewable diesel & biomethane) Drop-in fuels from waste oils, crops and residues — a stack from feedstock to certified SAF, renewable diesel and grid-injection biomethane. | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Algal biofuels Renewable fuels made from micro- and macroalgae through cultivation, harvesting, dewatering, extraction and upgrading — still pre-commercial, with EU standards … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Bio-natural gas (biomethane from rural and urban organic waste) Renewable gas made by anaerobic fermentation and upgrading of crop straw, manure and other organic waste — China targets over 10 billion m³ a year by 2025 and … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Biofuel futures & SAF certificates Exchange-traded futures, options and Book-and-Claim certificate registries that let airlines and refiners hedge the 2.5-4x price premium of sustainable aviation … | Finance & investment |
| Biogas and anaerobic fermentation Microbial anaerobic digestion of farm residues, energy crops and food waste into biogas, upgraded to grid-injectable biomethane (RNG) — a regional biogas … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Cellulosic ethanol (second-generation) Ethanol from non-food biomass by pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation and distillation — pilot and first commercial plants started 2013–2016, … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Gas fermentation to chemicals Acetogenic bacteria fix steel-mill and refinery off-gas (CO, CO2, H2) into recycled-carbon ethanol, acetone and sustainable aviation fuel through the … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Gasification & Fischer-Tropsch sustainable aviation fuel Municipal solid waste, forestry residue and captured biogas are gasified into syngas and built up into jet-range hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis — a … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Hydrogen fuel from biomass Thermochemical and biological routes that convert biomass and biomethane into hydrogen — gasification followed by water-gas shift and PSA, bio-SMR of … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Sustainable marine biofuel (biomethanol, bio-LNG) Bio-methanol and bio-LNG for shipping decarbonization — biomass-gasification methanol and anaerobic-digestion liquefied biomethane burned in dual-fuel marine … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
| Tall-oil biorefining Hydrotreatment of crude tall oil — a residue of pulp production — into renewable diesel and naphtha, commercial since the UPM Lappeenranta biorefinery started … | Biofuels & bioenergy |
Opportunities 2
| Grant | Circular innovative advanced materials: facilitating the transition from design to markets (RIA) (Innovative … European Commission | Feb 2, 2027 109 days |
| Grant | Textile circularity through advanced processing and manufacturing technologies and system approaches (IA) … European Commission | Feb 2, 2027 109 days |