Read the feature article on the Biofuels Digest here.
Breaking news came in today from the wonders down under, Australia-based Licella, in their joint venture with Canfor (Arbios Biotech) – a just inked a new global alliance with Shell Catalysts & Technologies that aims to create low-carbon, circular economy focused biorefinery, with Licella’s Cat-HTR (Catalytic Hydrothermal Reactor) technology at the core.
In today’s Digest, why it’s significant, the partners, the tech, the backstory, and more.
The deal
The Digest just got word that Arbios Biotech, Licella’s joint venture with integrated forest products company Canfor, and Shell Catalysts & Technologies, formed a new global alliance aimed at utilizing SC&T’s upgrading technology capability in the pursuit of a low-carbon intensity, circular-economy focused biorefinery.
It will allow for Shell upgrader units to work alongside commercial Cat-HTR plants to create a continuous and economically efficient process where advanced biofuels can be created from post-consumer biomass and residues on site.
By combining the proprietary upgrading expertise of SC&T with Licella’s Cat-HTR technology, the collaboration can deliver a complete biorefinery solution that can be expanded commercially into the broader market.
This alliance between Arbios Biotech and SC&T anticipates that Shell upgrader units will work in concert with commercial Cat-HTR plants, strategically located near aggregated post-consumer biomass feedstock sources. By linking SC&T upgrader units with Cat-HTR plants, Arbios Biotech would have the capability to upgrade biocrude to finished products in one continuous, efficient process.