BRAZIL-Boeing, Embraer and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are funding a study to evaluate the sustainability of jet fuel produced from Brazilian sugarcane by Amyris. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will act as independent reviewer and advisor (JFI Jun.20,p1). The project extends an existing research effort under way in Australia involving Amyris, the state government of Queensland and Boeing to the South American country. Evaluation of sugarto-hydrocarbon renewable jet fuel from the Amyris process will be financed by a regional cooperation grant from the IDB and conducted by ICONE, a think-tank that specializes in research on agriculture and biofuels. It will produce a lifecycle analysis that evaluates the impact of changes to indirect land use patterns. Responding to increased calls for global standards for biofuels, it will also benchmark jet fuel derived from sugarcane against existing standards including the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels and the IDB Biofuel Scorecard. A task force created last month by ASTM International has a mandate to set product specifications for sugar-to-hydrocarbon renewable jet fuels-the next tier of advanced biofuels following the Jul. 1 approval of the specification for hydro-treated renewable jet fuel, also known as hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA).
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