Biofuels are renewable transportation fuels derived from organic material including crops, agricultural residues, and waste. There has been a huge growth in the production and usage of biofuels as substitutes for fossil fuels. Due to the declining reserve of fossil resources as well as environmental concerns, and essential energy security, it is important to develop renewable and sustainable energy and chemicals.
The use of biofuels manufactured from plant-based biomass as feedstock would reduce fossil fuel consumption and consequently the negative impact on the environment. Renewable energy sources cover a broad raw material base, including cellulosic biomass (fibrous and inedible parts of plants), waste materials, algae, and biogas.
“The Global Market for Biofuels 2023-2023”, now in its Third Edition (first published June 2022), covers bio-based fuels based on utilization of:
- First-Generation Feedstocks (food-based) e.g. Waste oils including used cooking oil, animal fats, and other fatty acids.
- Second-Generation Feedstocks (non-food based) e.g. Lignocellulosic wastes and residues, Energy crops, Agricultural residues, Forestry residues, Biogenic fraction of municipal and industrial waste.
- Third-Generation Feedstocks e.g. algal biomass
- Fourth-Generation Feedstocks e.g. genetically modified (GM) algae and cyanobacteria.
Report contents include:
- Market trends and drivers.
- Market challenges.
- Biofuels pricing analysis.
- Biofuel consumption to 2033.
- SWOT analysis, by feedstock and biofuel type.
- Recent industry developments, innovations and investments.
- Market analysis including key players, end use markets, production processes, costs, production capacities, market demand for biofuels including:
- biodiesel
- renewable diesel
- bio-jet fuels
- bio-naphtha
- biomethanol
- ethanol
- biobutanol
- biogas
- biosyngas
- biohydrogen
- biofuel from plastic waste & used tires
- biofuels from carbon capture
- chemical recycling based biofuels
- electrofuels,
- bio-oils
- algae-derived biofuels
- green ammonia
- refuse-derived biofuels.
- Production and synthesis methods.
- 198 company profiles. Companies profiled include BTG Bioliquids, Byogy Renewables, Caphenia, Enerkem, Infinium. Eni S.p.A., Ensyn, FORGE Hydrocarbons Corporation, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Genecis Bioindustries, Gevo, Haldor Topsoe, Infinium Electrofuels, Opera Bioscience, Reverion GmbH, Steeper Energy, SunFire GmbH, Vertus Energy and Viridos, Inc.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- 2.1 Comparison to fossil fuels
- 2.2 Role in the circular economy
- 2.3 Market drivers
- 2.4 Market challenges
- 2.5 Liquid biofuels market 2020-2033, by type and production
3 INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENTS 2020-
4 BIOFUELS
- 4.1 The global biofuels market
- 4.1.1 Diesel substitutes and alternatives
- 4.1.2 Gasoline substitutes and alternatives
- 4.2 SWOT analysis: Biofuels market
- 4.3 Comparison of biofuel costs 2023, by type
- 4.4 Types
- 4.4.1 Solid Biofuels
- 4.4.2 Liquid Biofuels
- 4.4.3 Gaseous Biofuels
- 4.4.4 Conventional Biofuels
- 4.4.5 Advanced Biofuels
- 4.5 Feedstocks
- 4.5.1 First-generation (1-G)
- 4.5.2 Second-generation (2-G)
- 4.5.2.1 Lignocellulosic wastes and residues
- 4.5.2.2 Biorefinery lignin
- 4.5.3 Third-generation (3-G)
- 4.5.4 Fourth-generation (4-G)
- 4.5.5 Advantages and disadvantages, by generation
- 4.5.6 Energy crops
- 4.5.6.1 Feedstocks
- 4.5.6.2 SWOT analysis
- 4.5.7 Agricultural residues
- 4.5.7.1 Feedstocks
- 4.5.7.2 SWOT analysis
- 4.5.8 Manure, sewage sludge and organic waste
- 4.5.8.1 Processing pathways
- 4.5.8.2 SWOT analysis
- 4.5.9 Forestry and wood waste
- 4.5.9.1 Feedstocks
- 4.5.9.2 SWOT analysis
- 4.5.10 Feedstock costs
5 HYDROCARBON BIOFUELS
- 5.1 Biodiesel
- 5.1.1 Biodiesel by generation
- 5.1.2 SWOT analysis
- 5.1.3 Production of biodiesel and other biofuels
- 5.1.3.1 Pyrolysis of biomass
- 5.1.3.2 Vegetable oil transesterification
- 5.1.3.3 Vegetable oil hydrogenation (HVO)
- 5.1.3.4 Biodiesel from tall oil
- 5.1.3.5 Fischer-Tropsch BioDiesel
- 5.1.3.6 Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass
- 5.1.3.7 CO2 capture and Fischer-Tropsch (FT)
- 5.1.3.8 Dymethyl ether (DME)
- 5.1.4 Prices
- 5.1.5 Global production and consumption
- 5.2 Renewable diesel
- 5.2.1 Production
- 5.2.2 SWOT analysis
- 5.2.3 Global consumption
- 5.2.4 Prices
- 5.3 Bio-aviation fuel (bio-jet fuel, sustainable aviation fuel, renewable jet fuel or aviation biofuel)
- 5.3.1 Description
- 5.3.2 SWOT analysis
- 5.3.3 Global production and consumption
- 5.3.4 Production pathways
- 5.3.5 Prices
- 5.3.6 Bio-aviation fuel production capacities
- 5.3.7 Challenges
- 5.3.8 Global consumption
- 5.4 Bio-naphtha
- 5.4.1 Overview
- 5.4.2 SWOT analysis
- 5.4.3 Markets and applications
- 5.4.4 Prices
- 5.4.5 Production capacities, by producer, current and planned
- 5.4.6 Production capacities, total (tonnes), historical, current and planned
6 ALCOHOL FUELS
- 6.1 Biomethanol
- 6.1.1 SWOT analysis
- 6.1.2 Methanol-to gasoline technology
- 6.1.2.1 Production processes
- 6.2 Ethanol
- 6.2.1 Technology description
- 6.2.2 1G Bio-Ethanol
- 6.2.3 SWOT analysis
- 6.2.4 Ethanol to jet fuel technology
- 6.2.5 Methanol from pulp & paper production
- 6.2.6 Sulfite spent liquor fermentation
- 6.2.7 Gasification
- 6.2.7.1 Biomass gasification and syngas fermentation
- 6.2.7.2 Biomass gasification and syngas thermochemical conversion
- 6.2.8 CO2 capture and alcohol synthesis
- 6.2.9 Biomass hydrolysis and fermentation
- 6.2.9.1 Separate hydrolysis and fermentation
- 6.2.9.2 Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF)
- 6.2.9.3 Pre-hydrolysis and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (PSSF)
- 6.2.9.4 Simultaneous saccharification and co-fermentation (SSCF)
- 6.2.9.5 Direct conversion (consolidated bioprocessing) (CBP)
- 6.2.10 Global ethanol consumption
- 6.3 Biobutanol
- 6.3.1 Production
- 6.3.2 Prices
7 BIOMASS-BASED GAS
- 7.1 Feedstocks
- 7.2 Biogas
- 7.2.1 Biomethane
- 7.2.2 Production pathways
- 7.2.2.1 Landfill gas recovery
- 7.2.2.2 Anaerobic digestion
- 7.2.2.3 Thermal gasification
- 7.2.3 SWOT analysis
- 7.2.4 Global production
- 7.2.5 Prices
- 7.2.5.1 Raw Biogas
- 7.2.5.2 Upgraded Biomethane
- 7.2.6 Bio-LNG
- 7.2.6.1 Markets
- 7.2.6.2 Production
- 7.2.6.3 Plants
- 7.2.7 bio-CNG (compressed natural gas derived from biogas)
- 7.2.8 Carbon capture from biogas
- 7.3 Biosyngas
- 7.3.1 Production
- 7.3.2 Prices
- 7.4 Biohydrogen
- 7.4.1 Description
- 7.4.2 SWOT analysis
- 7.4.3 Production of biohydrogen from biomass
- 7.4.3.1 Biological Conversion Routes
- 7.4.3.2 Thermochemical conversion routes
- 7.4.4 Applications
- 7.4.5 Prices
- 7.5 Biochar in biogas production
- 7.6 Bio-DME
8 CHEMICAL RECYCLING FOR BIOFUELS
- 8.1 Plastic pyrolysis
- 8.2 Used tires pyrolysis
- 8.2.1 Conversion to biofuel
- 8.3 Co-pyrolysis of biomass and plastic wastes
- 8.4 Gasification
- 8.4.1 Syngas conversion to methanol
- 8.4.2 Biomass gasification and syngas fermentation
- 8.4.3 Biomass gasification and syngas thermochemical conversion
- 8.5 Hydrothermal cracking
- 8.6 SWOT analysis
9 ELECTROFUELS (E-FUELS)
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.1.1 Benefits of e-fuels
- 9.2 Feedstocks
- 9.2.1 Hydrogen electrolysis
- 9.2.2 CO2 capture
- 9.3 SWOT analysis
- 9.4 Production
- 9.4.1 eFuel production facilities, current and planned
- 9.5 Electrolysers
- 9.5.1 Commercial alkaline electrolyser cells (AECs)
- 9.5.2 PEM electrolysers (PEMEC)
- 9.5.3 High-temperature solid oxide electrolyser cells (SOECs)
- 9.6 Prices
- 9.7 Market challenges
- 9.8 Companies
10 ALGAE-DERIVED BIOFUELS
- 10.1 Technology description
- 10.2 Conversion pathways
- 10.3 SWOT analysis
- 10.4 Production
- 10.5 Market challenges
- 10.6 Prices
- 10.7 Producers
11 GREEN AMMONIA
- 11.1 Production
- 11.1.1 Decarbonisation of ammonia production
- 11.1.2 Green ammonia projects
- 11.2 Green ammonia synthesis methods
- 11.2.1 Haber-Bosch process
- 11.2.2 Biological nitrogen fixation
- 11.2.3 Electrochemical production
- 11.2.4 Chemical looping processes
- 11.3 SWOT analysis
- 11.4 Blue ammonia
- 11.4.1 Blue ammonia projects
- 11.5 Markets and applications
- 11.5.1 Chemical energy storage
- 11.5.1.1 Ammonia fuel cells
- 11.5.2 Marine fuel
- 11.6 Prices
- 11.7 Estimated market demand
- 11.8 Companies and projects
12 BIOFUELS FROM CARBON CAPTURE
- 12.1 Overview
- 12.2 CO2 capture from point sources
- 12.3 Production routes
- 12.4 SWOT analysis
- 12.5 Direct air capture (DAC)
- 12.5.1 Description
- 12.5.2 Deployment
- 12.5.3 Point source carbon capture versus Direct Air Capture
- 12.5.4 Technologies
- 12.5.4.1 Solid sorbents
- 12.5.4.2 Liquid sorbents
- 12.5.4.3 Liquid solvents
- 12.5.4.4 Airflow equipment integration
- 12.5.4.5 Passive Direct Air Capture (PDAC)
- 12.5.4.6 Direct conversion
- 12.5.4.7 Co-product generation
- 12.5.4.8 Low Temperature DAC
- 12.5.4.9 Regeneration methods
- 12.5.5 Commercialization and plants
- 12.5.6 Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in DAC
- 12.5.7 DAC plants and projects-current and planned
- 12.5.8 Markets for DAC
- 12.5.9 Costs
- 12.5.10 Challenges
- 12.5.11 Players and production
- 12.6 Methanol
- 12.7 Algae-based carbon utilization
- 12.8 CO2-fuels from solar
- 12.9 Companies
- 12.10 Challenges
13 BIO-OILS (PYROLYSIS OIL)
- 13.1 Description
- 13.1.1 Advantages of bio-oils
- 13.2 Production
- 13.2.1 Fast Pyrolysis
- 13.2.2 Costs of production
- 13.2.3 Upgrading
- 13.3 SWOT analysis
- 13.4 Applications
- 13.5 Bio-oil producers
- 13.6 Prices
14 REFUSE-DERIVED FUELS (RDF)
- 14.1 Overview
- 14.2 Production
- 14.2.1 Production process
- 14.2.2 Mechanical biological treatment
- 14.3 Markets
15 COMPANY PROFILES (198 company profiles)
16 REFERENCES