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Announcement alert! 🌱✨ We're pleased to announce that we have completed our final biofuel blend supply chain trial! This marks the end of a series of trials initiated in July 2022 as part of a larger pilot to develop a framework to provide quality, quantity and GHG abatement assurances for drop-in fuels. Special acknowledgement to our partners: Hapag-Lloyd AG: For partnering with us on this final trial onboard TIHAMA, a 19,870 TEU container vessel. This final trial was our largest yet, involving the bunkering of 4,500 MT B30 blend of FAME and VLSFO. The consumption of this biofuel blend resulted in 27.9% emissions reduction compared to sailing on VLSFO. bp: For providing the B30 biofuel bend to the TIHAMA. The biofuel component comprised neat FAME produced from food waste and is certified to the International Sustainability & Carbon Certification (ISCC) standard. Authentix: GCMD collaborated with Authentix to develop and deploy a new organic-based tracer to authenticate the origin and verify the amount of FAME present in the blend. The proprietary tracer blended homogeneously with FAME and was detected at expected concentrations at all sampling points along the supply chain. VPS: VPS witnessed the operations at all stages, collected and conducted extensive laboratory tests on samples of the biofuel and biofuel blend collected at pre-determined points along the supply chain to assess quality per industry standards. For more details on our final trial, check out our press release here: https://lnkd.in/gS95CF8D Stay tuned as we prepare to share insights from these trials covering issues, such as traceability, biofuel degradation, supply chain optimisation and abatement costs. These findings will culminate in a comprehensive assurance framework to provide guidance on biofuels use, slated for release in the fourth quarter of 2024.
This is definitely a very useful reference for our work at the ASEAN Centre for Energy. Big congratulations, Prof. Lynn Loo, Dr Sanjay C Kuttan and the team. Looking forward to learning more.
Outstanding efforts and results from GCMD and stake holders !!
President, Strategic Partnerships
3moThese Biofuels supply chain projects will fundamentally define the parameters under which such green fuels need to be quality controlled - not only to ensure the price premium the industry will have to paid - but to also avoid fraudulent practices. We VPS have provided our expertise on each of these supply chain trials - & together with Global Centre for Maritime Decarbonisation (GCMD) will continue to show such strategic leadership needed in this fragmented industry.