The Australis Biofuels Facility is the first of our integrated bioenergy and biofuels facilities in Australia. Located in the coastal town of Esperance Western Australia on 20 hectares of industrial land in close proximity to port, infrastructure and biomass resources.
Esperance is an ideal location for the production of biofuels and bioenergy due to it's sustainably driven community and vision and 42,000 km2 of land area. Our biomass feedstock is derived from existing and future forestry residues and marginal or degraded agricultural land.
Our Australis Biofuels Facility will create over a 100 permanent jobs and 100's of support services, suppliers and contractors. Renewable.bio is working closely with the shire and community to develop, train and enable local employment for 20+ years of future work in bioenergy, biofuels and biochemical industries.
The Australis Biofuels Facility integrates biomass handling, biochar production, cellulosic ethanol and SAF production and bioenergy production along with future bio-based agri-chemicals and fertilisers.
Our team of foresters, contractors and suppliers in Esperance currently produces 150,000 GMT per annum of biomass for export. Biomass production is planned to double every year out to 500,000 GMT of biomass by 2026. Long term sustainable feedstock production and handling is a critical part of Australia's bioenergy future.
We plan to build a 50,000 tonne per annum cellulosic ethanol facility as part of our Australis Biofuels Facility. Cellulosic ethanol is made from wood residues, straw and other plant based feedstocks.
Cellulosic ethanol is a valuable sustainable fuel and commodity used in petrol (E10 fuel) and as a precursor for many other sustainable liquid fuels to replace diesel, aviation fuel and chemicals.
SAF is critical to the decarbonisation of the aviation industry. Due to Australia's remoteness, long haul aviation will remain a key area of transport in Australia's future. SAF is a direct replacement for kerosene, the current main fossil fuel used in aviation.
Our SAF will be produced using a ASTM approved alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) process that converts our cellulosic ethanol and other sustainable hydrocarbon co-products in to a critical fuel for Australia's future.
Our Australis Biofuels Facility will produce up to 20,000 tonnes per annum of renewable diesel for use in the transport and mining industry.
Biochar produced through a pyrolysis process will be integrated with biofuel and power production.
Our planned capacity is 100,000 tonnes or biochar per annum developed in a staged approach to meet market demand and process development.
Biochar production produces valuable co-products such as syngas and bio-chemicals that will be sold to market or used internally in the facility.
Our Australis Biofuels Facility will be completely powered using renewable energy from our planned 50MW integrated biomass power station. Excess renewable base load electricity will be sold in to the Esperance energy grid or to co-located industrial users.
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