Professor Li Wei, Vice Minister of Science and Technology Research Department of Nankai University, Professor at the School of Chemistry, doctoral supervisor, recipient of the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents Fund, and the first-level candidate of Tianjin's "131" innovative talent training program. He has long been engaged in the research and development of new catalysts closely related to clean production in chemical engineering. He has published a total of more than 150 academic papers in important domestic and foreign academic journals, applied for more than 130 Chinese invention patents and 3 U.S. invention patents, and has had more than a dozen scientific research achievements industrially applied. As the first author, he has won multiple provincial and ministerial awards, and has won the Tianjin Outstanding Contribution Award for Industry-University-Research Collaboration awarded by the Tianjin Municipal Government for two consecutive years. He won the First Prize of Tianjin Science and Technology Award for Technological Invention in 2020.

    With the main focus on the project "Design and Application of Nano Catalysts in Important Chemical Reactions", several important research results have successfully achieved industrial-scale production, realizing the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and promoting the landing of industry-university-research projects in universities. While achieving significant economic benefits, it has overcome the problems of long production cycles and heavy pollution in industrial applications, making significant contributions to the sustainable development of enterprises and environmental governance.

           The 'Sustainable Aviation Fuel' Act (ReFuelEu Aviation) clearly states that biojet fuel is an important means for the aviation sector to reduce emissions in the coming decades. Sustainable aviation biofuels (biojet fuel) are expected to account for 2% of aviation fuel by 2025 and 63% by 2050. Referring to the EU's aviation fuel consumption of 68.54 million tons in 2019 before the pandemic, with a maximum expected addition of 63%, the corresponding demand potential for biojet fuel exceeds 43 million tons per year.

            Burning one ton of petroleum-based jet fuel produces 3.16 tons of carbon dioxide. The carbon tax price per ton of carbon dioxide is around 30~50 euros. The International Civil Aviation Organization plans to encourage and mandate the phased use of biojet fuel, making the development of biojet fuel an inevitable trend with significant implications for the world's energy environment.

        Our company relies on the research results of Professor Li Wei's team at Nankai University, world's first castor oil hydrogenation catalyst, breaking through the world's difficult problems of castor oil hydrogenation catalysts being easily deactivated, poor selectivity, and low yield. Using castor oil as raw material, bio-jet fuel is prepared through catalytic hydrogenation, while also producing high value-added second-generation bio-diesel and bio-gasoline.

        Currently, the bio-jet fuel products produced by the company have been tested by multiple authoritative institutions such as the Airworthiness Certification Center of the Civil Aviation Administration of China and the Air Force Fuel Institute, all meeting the standards. It can achieve zero carbon dioxide emissions throughout the life cycle and contribute to achieving the goals of peak carbon emissions and carbon neutrality.