According to the latest report by Lux Research, new biofuel technology has finally begun to squeeze the market space of traditional biofuels (eg, the first generation of biodiesel). Based on non-food raw materials and the production of new fuels accounted for more than half of the new capacity configuration, which for the bio-fuel industry, is the first time. However, its total output will grow at a low rate of 59 billion gallons per year (BGY) in 2016 and reach 67 billion gallons per year by 2022.
As an important part of the company’s alternative fuel intelligence intelligence service, the agency publishes a paper entitled “2022 Biofuels Outlook: A New Age Dawn of Global Biofuel Capacity Expansion”, an analyst at the company’s global biology Quantitative statistics for the commercialization of new technologies in the fuel industry, using the rated capacity data for the database of nearly 2,000 facilities in 1461 companies in more than 90 countries (up to 2022). The current findings include:
Emerging technologies drive a new era of biofuel capacity expansion
Higher biofuels are slowing but growing. The global biofuels industry will grow at an annual rate of 2.2 percent, with a capacity of 67 billion gallons per year by 2022. The first generation of biofuels (biodiesel) will continue to dominate the market (currently market share of 91.5%), but the market share of the wastage rate will reach 6%, because the rapid growth of bio-fuels, capacity doubled close to 9.6 billion gallons /year.
The development prospects of the first generation of biofuels are bleak. Today, second-generation biofuels account for 65% of the high biofuel market share (500 million gallons per year), but by 2022, due to low carbon and high performance, such as renewable diesel, biofuels (dro -in biofuels), is expected to lose 26% of the market share.
Thermal chemistry and catalytic processes will open up a new era. Emerging thermochemical technology will go beyond the bioprocessing process, accounting for more than half of the new production capacity, which for the bio-fuel industry, is the first time.
“The new era of technology commercialization has brought the industry critical point for the global biofuels industry, as many new facilities target low-carbon and high-performance biofuels,” said Runeel Daliah, research assistant and lead author of Ricks Research. The technology for producing advanced biofuels is still in the process of arguing and will become critical in the next five years, as many companies raise funds to establish a secure value chain system because these projects are already on the line.