Canada’s Biojet Supply Chain Initiative involves a total of 14 stakeholder organisations, made up of industry and academic research, which will develop an operational framework for supplying aviation biofuel into a multi-user, co-mingled airport fuel system. The project is to source renewable feedstocks from Canada’s abundant agriculture and forestry biomass, using sustainable production and harvesting techniques. The commercially available, certifiably sustainable oleochemical feedstocks will then be converted into fuels using the ASTM-approved Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids conversion process.
CBSCI is co-ordinated through BioFuelNet Canada’s Aviation Task Force and is managed by the Waterfall Group, with its primary funding derived from the Green Aviation Research and Development Network. It includes research participation from Queen’s University, the University of Toronto and McGill University, which will be assisting in modelling feedstock availability, identifying and addressing barriers to biojet adoption in co-mingled fuel systems and implementing the IATA Sustainability Meta Standard: this is the framework standard that has been developed for aviation biofuel use.
