Spain’s Acciona Selected to Build HVO Plant in Paraguay
by Marcelo Teixeira (Reuters) Spain’s engineering group Acciona SA was selected to build Latin America’s first plant to produce advanced biofuels HVO and SPK in a project that will use technology from U.S. firms Honeywell UOP and Crown Iron Works, Brazil’s ECB Group said on Monday.
ECB plans to build the plant in the municipality of Villeta, 45 km (28 miles) from the Paraguayan capital, Assuncion. The plant would produce 20,000 barrels per day of HVO, a renewable substitute for diesel, and SPK, a renewable aviation fuel.
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ECB plans to export the future production to Europe, the United States and Canada, where those types of renewable fuels find more demand. Vegetable oils such as soyoil are the main raw materials to be used in the process. READ MORE