FUEL-UP (Production of advanced biofuels via pyrolysis and upgrading of 100% biogenic residues for aviation and marine sector, including full valorisation of side streams) is a 4-year EU funded project, launched on 1 January 2024, aimed at transforming 100% biogenic waste into advanced biofuels to enable the green transition and the decarbonisation of the aviation and the marine transport sectors.

FUEL-UP will provide solutions to make a paradigm shift towards the production of renewable sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) and marine fuels by producing stabilized deoxygenated pyrolysis oils (SDPO) from pyrolysis oils (PO) derived from 100% biogenic feedstock that can be subsequently processed towards a fully hydrotreated oil in a refinery. The project will, therefore, validate, at demo scale, a route to produce sustainable liquid biofuels from lignocellulosic streams with 45-50% aviation fuel, 30-35% in the marine diesel range and 20% heavy naphtha at technology readiness level-7 (TRL-7).

The FUEL-UP project is coordinated by SINTEF and has a consortium of 12 partners from 8 different EU countries: SINTEF Ocean (Norway), B.T.G. Biomass Technology Group (The Netherlands), BTG-Next (The Netherlands), Tüpras (Turkey), RANIDO (Czech Republic), AVECOM (Belgium), German Aerospace Center (Germany), Aristeng (Greece), ETA-Florence Renewable Energies (Italy), LIST (Luxembourg), Ketjen (the Netherlands).