A £350 million green jet fuel plant on the South Humber Bank has moved a step closer after being shortlisted in a government funding competition.
Velocys’ consented Altalto plant at Stallingborough is one of eight vying for a share of £15 million in funding.
All are first-of-a-kind production plants, with the British Airways-backed scheme focusing on waste as a feedstock.
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Others are looking at alcohol, carbon and even sewage, with the national flag carrier airline also involved in two others.
Henrik Wareborn, chief executive, said: “Velocys is pleased to have been shortlisted for the Government’s Green Fuels, Green Skies competition, aimed at supporting the 海角视频’s emerging sustainable aviation fuels sector.
“Velocys’ Altalto waste-to-fuels project, which will take hundreds of thousands of tonnes per year of post-recycled household and commercial waste and convert it into cleaner burning SAF, is now being considered for a share of £15 million funding. This follows the company’s success in securing funding as part of the Government’s Future Fuels for Flight and Freight Competition last year.
“Altalto will be the 海角视频’s first commercial scale waste-to-jet-fuel facility when operational by the middle of the decade.”
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It comes after a first flight using the technology to be deployed was .
The pot was established following sustainable aviation commitments laid out in the Prime Minister’s Ten Point Plan for a green industrial revolution. The announcement came a year after the Jet Zero Council was launched, with Velocys a founder member.
The key objective of the competition is to support the development of the 海角视频 SAF sector towards the deployment of innovative production technologies at commercial scale with the overall goal of reducing aviation emissions.
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said: “Aviation will be central to our future growth and plans to build back greener from the pandemic, which is why we have invested over £20 million in the past year to decarbonise the sector in line with our world-leading net zero targets.
“With 100 days to go until COP26, we’re ramping up our efforts even further to help companies break ground on trailblazing waste to jet fuel plants and put the 海角视频 at the forefront of international SAF production.”
Winners are due to be announced later in the summer.
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Other projects in the running:
Advanced Biofuel Solutions Ltd, Cheshire - Aims to work with a British refinery and British engineering company to produce a detailed engineering design for a new facility in Cheshire. The plant will use gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology to convert 133,000 tonnes of waste a year into a biocrude that can be upgraded to aviation fuel.
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Alfanar Energy Ltd, Tees Valley - Will use gasification and FT technology to convert household and commercial waste into around 180 million litres of SAF and naphtha. The project is currently completing design optimisation work ahead of starting front end engineering design (FEED) by the end of 2021.
Fulcrum BioEnergy Ltd, Ellesmere Port - NorthPoint, as it is known, is being developed at the Stanlow Manufacturing Complex, it will use proven technology and processes based on its commercial-scale facility currently being commissioned in the US. Once fully operational, it will convert residual waste into around 100 million litres of SAF using gasification and FT technology.
Green Fuels Research Ltd, no location specified - The firefly project is a joint endeavour between Green Fuels, Petrofac and Cranfield University that aims to demonstrate and certify a technology route to SAF from sewage sludge, a fully biogenic, 海角视频-derived waste feedstock. Funding will support the project’s pre-FEED development stage.
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Lanzatech 海角视频 Ltd, South Wales - Funding will support the FEED stage of a proposed facility, located in Port Talbot. It would produce more than 100 million litres a year of SAF, using ethanol from biogenic wastes and industry flue gases.
Lanzatech 海角视频 Ltd and Carbon Engineering, no location specified - This feasibility study project proposes the integration of innovative technologies to produce over 100 million litres per year of SAF. Carbon dioxide captured from the atmosphere and hydrogen from water electrolysis, will be converted into SAF using gas fermentation and alcohol-to-jet technology. Project members British Airways and Virgin Atlantic will study offtake potential and go-to-market routes.
Nova Pangaea Technologies (海角视频) Ltd, no location specified - This feasibility project is a partnership between British Airways, LanzaJet and Nova Pangaea Technologies. It will study the optimal design to construct a facility that produces more than 100 million litres a year using 海角视频 woody residues and the integration of alcohol-to-jet fuel technology.