Chelsea Grimes, Global Strategic Marketing Manager at Grace, outlines how the company has been supporting the biofuels industry.
Can you outline Grace’s solutions for biofuels and SAF?
Let me start by saying that Grace is one of the leading global suppliers of speciality chemicals and solutions that enable industries to enhance modern life.
To that end, we have been supporting the biofuels sector for over 60 years, helping to innovate new and improved renewable production processes.
Today, we offer a range of biofuel and SAF solutions — from silica adsorbents for feedstock pretreatment to molecular sieves for ethanol dehydration and hydroprocessing catalysts.
One of our flagship products, TRISYL®, is a synthetic amorphous silica adsorbent that helps refiners reduce impurities in a variety of feedstocks down to trace levels during pretreatment.
It is used for renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and first-generation biodiesel, and its specially engineered structure helps it adsorb polar contaminants and prolong catalyst life.
TRISYL® silica may reduce solid waste from pretreatment by up to 85%, while...
