Mol told MTI that Rossi Biofuel Zrt, partly owned by Mol, is already capable of producing more than 200,000 tons of biofuel per year. According to the company, due to the growing global demand for energy, an increasingly diverse range of fuels will be required, which is why Mol is testing a number of additional technologies in addition to biofuels.
In a statement issued on the occasion of World Biodiesel Day, it was stated that the Mol Group, through its long-term strategy called “Shape of Tomorrow”, is increasingly focusing on renewable fuels such as biodiesel, which is made from vegetable oils, animal fats, used cooking oils or waste, and the inclusion of the circular economy increases the contribution of organic material flows and waste in production.
He pointed out that the use of biofuel not only reduces the amount of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere, but also reduces traffic in proportion to the amount of the mixed component, and through this the economy's dependence on petroleum is reduced.
They pointed out that one ton of biodiesel saves about two to three tons of carbon dioxide compared to fossil diesel.
Mol Group supplies fuel to nine countries, blending hundreds of thousands of tons of biodiesel or bioethanol, as well as other materials of renewable origin. The company has been in the field of biodiesel production since 2008 through its partly owned company Rossi Biofuel Zrt, which has now significantly increased the amount of biofuel produced in Hungary with an annual capacity of more than 200,000 tons.
A quarter of the capacity consists of so-called advanced biodiesel, which enables the treatment of fatty wastes of various types and origins, such as used cooking oils, animal fats or residues from the production of vegetable oils.
In the announcement, they stated that since 2011, used cooking oil can also be delivered at designated Mol filling stations, so, with the participation of the public, about 3,000 tons of used cooking oil were collected until the first half of 2023. After that, the Ministry of Housing and Development doubled this amount with the start of the concession, and in the second half of 2023 it has already collected about 6,000 tons of used cooking oil, where used cooking oil can now be delivered at all waste yards.
The goal is a diversified fuel portfolio.
In 2022, in cooperation with Budapest Airport, Wizz Air and Repülőtéri Üzemanyag Kiszőló Kft., Mol also started commercial testing of sustainable aviation fuel.
In April this year, the company delivered the new green hydrogen plant in Donai-Fenometo, where 1,600 tons of the energy carrier are produced annually for use in fuel production, thus reducing the refinery's CO2 emissions by about 25,000 tons per year, the statement said.
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