In Queensland , state premier Anna Palaszczuk , announced that a $16m advanced biofuels pilot plant will be built at Yarwun , Australia . “The results of our preliminary investigations have been very encouraging and we’re now ready to move to this one million litres a year pilot plant,” Rose said. If successful, the next step will be to build Australia ’s first commercial refinery, costing $16m and producing 200m litres of advanced biofuel for military aviation and marine. The plant is to be operational later this year , processing sugarcane bagasse and prickly acacia feedstock into bio crude oil, purifying further into kerosene and diesel products. The expectation over the next 3yrs is to produce 200m litres of fuel for the US and Royal Australian Navies as part of the Gladstone State Development Area initiative.
In Queensland , state premier Anna Palaszczuk , announced that a $16m advanced biofuels pilot plant will be built at Yarwun , Australia . If successful, the next step will be to build Australia ’s first commercial refinery, costing $16m and producing 200m litres of advanced biofuel for military aviation and marine. The plant is to be operational later this year , processing sugarcane bagasse and prickly acacia feedstock into bio crude oil, purifying further into kerosene and diesel products. The expectation over the next 3yrs is to produce 200m litres of fuel for the US and Royal Australian Navies as part of the Gladstone State Development Area initiative.