Turkey opens the first European carbon-negative refinery to produce bio-fuel

According to Euronews, Turkey wants to use the biorefinery to make fuel, food supplements and fertilizers from microalgae and macroalgae.

The refinery is part of a Turkish effort to provide fuel for the energy sector from alternative sources in order to rely less on non-renewable fossil fuels.

The budget allocated for the project was 6 million euro and it was funded 85% by the European Union and 15% by the Turkish Ministry of Industry and Technoology.

The facility was built inside the campus of Bogazici University, in Istanbul.

It is said that in the carbon-negative biorefinery about 1.200 tons of wet algae will be processed each year.

The first domestic flight from Turkish Airlines using the new bio-jet fuel should take place at the end of 2022.