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Universal Fuel Technologies demonstrates fully drop-in SAF using HEFA byproducts

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By Universal Fuel Technologies

March 18, 2026

Advanced Biofuels Sustainable Aviation Fuels Business 

Universal Fuel Technologies’ has announced its Flexiforming technology successfully converts HEFA-derived naphtha into synthetic aromatic kerosene that, when blended with paraffinic SAF, creates a fully synthetic jet fuel.

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Verity Holdings LLC and CIBO Technologies Inc. on March 17 announced a strategic partnership to deliver an end-to-end data and verification solution connecting farm-level practices to fuel production.

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The U.S. Department of Energy on March 17 opened a $293 million funding opportunity focused on the use of AI to tackle a wide range of complex science and technology problems, including those in the field of biotechnology.

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Abundia Global Impact Group Inc. has entered a multi-project licensing agreement with Topsoe to deploy its HydroFlex technology for the upgrading process at a waste-plastics-to-renewable products recycling facility in Baytown, Texas.

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Equilibrion and Rolls-Royce SMR have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on a technical and economic assessment, to better understand the opportunity for nuclear powered SAF using small modular reactors.

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Clariant on March 3 announced a strategic collaboration with Vertimass LLC aiming to accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced zeolite catalysts for the catalytic conversion of biobased alcohols.

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thyssenkrupp Uhde has been awarded a contract by Halifax-based Nova Sustainable Fuels to perform an integration and optimization study for NSF’s biomass-to-methanol project in Nova Scotia, Canada.

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Syzygy Plasmonics on March 3 announced an MOU with Geo bio gas&carbon, Brazil's foremost sugarcane and ethanol waste to biogas developer and operator, to develop commercial-scale sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) projects in Brazil.

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Siemens and CAPHENIA have entered a partnership to scale the production of SAF. As preferred automation and digitalization partner, Siemens will provide digitalization and automation solutions for CAPHENIA's plasma technology

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SAF Magazine, in collaboration with the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative, has announced the 2026 North American SAF Conference & Expo will take place Aug. 25-27, in Tacoma, Washington, at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center.

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Carbon Direct and C2X have announced a new collaboration to advance the Beaver Lake Biofuels project in Louisiana. This project will transform forestry residues and by-products into both clean fuel and high-quality CO2 removal credits.

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Atlantic Biomass LLC and its partners Ohio State University and Hood College, with funding assistance from the U.S. Department of Energy and Maryland Energy Innovation Institute, have developed an affordable way to produce SAF.

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Honeywell on Feb. 24 announced that Verso Energy will use Honeywell UOP’s eFining methanol-to-jet processing technology to produce eSAF at seven planned production sites in France, Finland and the U.S.

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Velocys on Feb. 19 announced that it has implemented manufacturing and delivery efficiencies that reduce total investment cost for its microFTL technology by more than 30%. The FT technology is used to produce SAF.

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Haffner Energy announced on Jan. 27 the launch of its new C-iC modular industrial units line, designed to address the financing and deployment challenges facing medium-scale, decentralized biofuel projects.

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Anessa has announced along-term strategic partnership with CVE Biogaz aimed at transforming the way biogas projects are designed, optimized and operated through the use of Anessa’s advanced modeling and analytics platform.

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Topsoe has been selected by Tangshan Jinlihai Biotechnology Co. Ltd. to provide its Hydroflex technology and related services for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) project with the capacity to process 300,000 tons of feedstock annually.

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Kemvera on Jan. 21 announced it has completed the process design package for its planned 50,000 metric tons per year commercial-scale plant. The company’s technology can convert ethanol into drop-in chemicals.

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Gevo Inc. has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 12,486,207 B2. The patent broadens protections for different catalyst combinations and explicitly protects the use of ethanol-to-olefins (ETO) technology to produce fuels.

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CPM has introduced the 1200 Direct Drive pellet mill. The new system eliminates the gearbox and V-belt found in traditional pellet mills, making it the most advanced, energy-efficient pellet mill available.

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Advanced biofuels pioneer Haffner Energy and power-to-energy player IGNIS P2X kicked off their bio/e-SAF collaborative project AeroVerde. The companies are currently identifying the project’s first site’s precise location in Spain.

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While electric and hydrogen aircraft may eventually transform aviation, sustainable aviation fuel offers the most viable path to immediate emissions reduction.

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Capstone Green Energy Holdings Inc. on Jan. 7 announced completing the installation of its 6.6-MW CHP microturbine system at a facility in North Carolina that will use pyrolysis to produce biogas from swine waste.

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Evonik has won two legal disputes, unquestionably securing European Union and U.S. patent rights for the company’s pioneering 3-stage biogas upgrading process with SEPURAN Green membranes.

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Clean Energy Technologies Inc. (CETY) on Dec. 10 announced a dedicated HTAP based platform designed for integration with existing and planned anaerobic digestion (AD) and renewable natural gas (RNG) facilities.

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Dutch biomethanol producer Perpetual Next and American equipment supplier TSI celebrated their long-term collaboration on Nov. 24 with the kick-off of constructing the world's largest torrefaction reactor in Estonia.

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Hydron Energy Inc. announced on Dec. 1 that it has received funding from NGIF Accelerator to support demonstration of its INTRUPTor solution for single stage low-cost landfill biogas upgrading at the Bailey Landfill in British Columbia.

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The U.S. Department of Energy on Dec. 1 announced it has renamed the National Renewable Energy Laboratory as the National Laboratory of the Rockies. The change is effective immediately, according to the agency.

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Calpech, a spin-off from the University of Alicante (UA) in Spain, is becoming a key player in the transformation of the biogas sector through a disruptive technological solution based on iron nanoparticles encapsulated in carbon.

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With support from Minnesota Corn, University of Minnesota Professor of Chemical Engineering Paul Dauenhauer is exploring the corn-to-methanol pathway for biofuels, which could be used to produce SAF.

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