Preem and Vattenfall Collaborate for Swedish Biofuel
March 29, 2017http://news.vattenfall.com/en/article/preem-and-vattenfall-collaborate-biofuel
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Preem and Vattenfall have signed an agreement to study the potential of using climate-smart hydrogen gas and forestry by-products in the large scale production of biofuel for the Swedish market.
Vattenfall will provide the climate-smart hydrogen gas for the fuel production. The hydrogen gas will be produced by electrolysis, by passing an electric current through water to separate the molecules into hydrogen and oxygen gases.
Preem, the largest fuel company in Sweden, already produces biofuel made from tall oil. It also intends in the future to produce renewable fuel from sawdust and forestry residues from timber felling and lignin from the wood pulp industry.
If Preem and Vattenfall succeed with this endeavor and Preem achieves producing three million cubic meters of renewable fuel annually by 2030, it would be vital to the government's climate target for the Swedish transport sector. Preem and Vattenfall will now set up a work group and pilot study.
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