Used cooking oil to produce sustainable aviation fuel: IOC

Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is an alternative fuel made from non-petroleum feedstocks that reduces emissions from air transportation

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NEW DELHI: Cooking oil is often discarded after being used for frying at home or in restaurants. However, a refinery of Indian Oil Corporation has now won a certification to use the same oil to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the company chairman AS Sahney said.

SAF is an alternative fuel made from non-petroleum feedstocks that reduces emissions from air transportation. It can be blended up to 50 per cent in conventional aviation turbine fuel (ATF or jet fuel), depending on availability. India has mandated 1 per cent SAF blending in jet fuel sold to international airlines from 2027.

IndianOil's Panipat refinery in Haryana has won the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) ISCC CORSIA certification (International Sustainability and Carbon Certification - ISCC - developed under the Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA) to produce SAF from used cooking oil, he said.

"We are the only company in the country to get this certification," he said.