Total content and speciation in non-conventional lipid feedstock for biofuel production

The recent European Directive RED II will impose a minimum of 14% of transportation fuels coming from renewable feedstocks in 2030 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

To reach this objective, non-edible oils must be processed to produce clean renewable fuels. However, the chemical composition of these complex matrices is mainly unknown and some impurities even if present at trace levels can affect biofuel’s production, such as the Cl and P content.

This communication will address, in a first step, an accurate determination of the total content of the previous elements in non-conventional biofuel feedstocks by ICP-MS/MS, and, in a second step, it will be developed a methodology by HPLC-ICP-MS/MS to reach an elemental fingerprint.

Presenter: Santiago Martínez del Olmo, PhD (IFP Energies Nouvelles (Lyon, France))

Santiago Martínez del Olmo obtained his PhD under the supervision of Prof. José Luis Todolí and Dra. Raquel Sánchez in 2022 at University of Alicante in collaboration with TotalEnergies. His work was focused on the development of new analytical methods based on ICP techniques for the determination of metals and metalloids in renewable fuel feedstock and conventional petroleum products. Since May 2022, he has a postdoctoral contract at IFP Energies Nouvelles (Lyon, France) based on the development of accurate methods for the determination of the total elemental content and elemental fingerprint in renewable biofuel feedstocks by ICP-MS/MS and the hyphenation of chromatographic techniques to this instrument.