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BEIJING, Sept. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

-Fuel Derived From Used Cooking Oil Underlines Sinopec's Long-term Strategy for

Sustainable Development

Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (HKG: 0386,

"Sinopec") obtained a bio-jet fuel airworthiness certificate issued by the

Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) on September 19. The first batch

of bio-jet fuel will be shipped to the Airbus (China) Tianjin plant this month.

The fuel, derived from used cooking oil, will then be used for flights across

China. This will mark the first time that large-scale produced bio-jet fuel

will serve the aviation industry in China.

The airworthiness certificate means that Sinopec can sell the bio-jet fuel

produced at Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery to aviation operators nationwide. The

refinery, in the Zhenhai District of Ningbo, Zhejiang province, has an annual

designed processing capacity of 100,000 tons and adopts Sinopec's bio-jet fuel

production technology (SRJET) to produce the fuel. The plant's first batch in

June produced around 600 tons of bio-jet fuel.

"With the airworthiness certificate, Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery can now sell

bio-jet fuel to the entire civil aviation market, we will continue to expand

the market and supply chain to build a full industry chain of bio-jet fuel,"

said Mo Dingge, CEO of Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery.

China has strict standards for airworthiness certification. Beforehand, experts

from the Airworthiness Certification Center of CAAC conducted on-site

evaluations at Sinopec Zhenhai Refinery that covered all stages of operation,

including the bio-jet fuel quality management system, production process

management and control, product storage and transportation and sample analysis

and testing.

The refinery has already obtained Asia's first global RSB sustainable aviation

fuel certification issued by Scientific Certification Systems, a key pass for

China's bio-jet fuel to enter the international market.

Compared to traditional petroleum-based aviation kerosene, bio-jet fuel can

reduce carbon emissions by up to 50 percent throughout the entire lifecycle.

Sinopec is committed to advancing the development of China's bio-jet fuel

industry. It developed its SRJET technology in 2009 and produced bio-jet fuel

in December 2011 that was successfully tested in flight at Shanghai Hongqiao

Airport in April 2013. After two years of evaluation, experts confirmed

Sinopec's bio-jet fuel as suitable for operation in aviation, and the company

obtained China's first airworthiness certification for bio-jet fuel in 2014.

Please visit http://www.sinopec.com/ for more information.

SOURCE:SINOPEC

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