{"id":120741,"date":"2023-01-11T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-11T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=120741"},"modified":"2023-01-09T09:33:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T08:33:07","slug":"lanzatechs-waste-gas-to-saf-facility-receives-25m-grant-from-uk-department-for-transport-advanced-fuels-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/lanzatechs-waste-gas-to-saf-facility-receives-25m-grant-from-uk-department-for-transport-advanced-fuels-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"LanzaTech\u2019s Waste Gas-to-SAF Facility receives \u00a325M Grant from UK Department for Transport Advanced Fuels Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n

LanzaTech UK Ltd., a subsidiary of LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (\u201cLanzaTech\u201d), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (\u201cCCT\u201d) company, has announced that its DRAGON facility project has received a \u00a325M (~$31M) grant from the UK Department for Transport\u2019s Advanced Fuels Fund Competition. LanzaTech\u2019s Project DRAGON, which stands for\u00a0Decarbonizing and\u00a0Reimagining\u00a0Aviation for the\u00a0Goal\u00a0Of\u00a0Netzero, will convert waste gases into synthetic kerosene for use in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the funding, Project DRAGON will complete engineering and the project development in collaboration with Fluor Corporation and Technip Energies, required to reach a final investment decision (FID) for the entire waste gas to SAF project. The proposed plant, which will be sited in Port Talbot, South Wales, is expected to produce 102 million litres per year of ATJ Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (ATJ-SPK) to be blended with kerosene to make SAF, representing ~1% of annual UK jet fuel demand and making a significant contribution towards the UK Mandate for supplying 10% of total annual jet fuel demand in the U.K. with SAF by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe must accelerate deployment of SAF plants in the UK,\u201d said Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech. \u201cWe\u2019re excited that Project DRAGON has been recognized for its potential to deliver results and create new jobs while producing the volumes of SAF greatly needed by a sector that has limited options today. I thank the UK Department for Transport for its continued support and for showing leadership in validating new technologies that can have a real impact in the UK and beyond.\u201d<\/p>

Jonathon Counsell, IAG\u2019s Group Head of Sustainability, said: \u201cInvesting in Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) is one of the best opportunities our industry has to decarbonise. We\u2019re delighted that Project Dragon has received crucial financial support in the UK from the Department for Transport Advanced Fuels Fund.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cIAG has committed US$865 million in SAF purchases and investments to date, including supporting the first of its kind LanzaJet ethanol-to-jet plant being built in the US. With the right policy support to incentivise further investment, the UK could see many SAF plants built over the next decade, creating 6,500 jobs and saving over three million tonnes of CO2 per year as well as improving the UK\u2019s energy security.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cDelivering 10% SAF in 2030 requires a UK SAF industry at scale,\u201d said Holly Boyd-Boland, VP Corporate Development at Virgin Atlantic. \u201cToday\u2019s award of the DFT\u2019s Advanced Fuel Fund will take us a step closer to proving the technology works and attracting the private investment needed to finance these plants. Virgin Atlantic and LanzaTech have a long history of collaboration on SAF, and we look forward to continuing our efforts to produce, purchase and fly SAF from the UK.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cWe are delighted to be part of a project that has the potential to transform our local economy \u2013 and the entire aviation industry,\u201d said Karen Jones, CEO of Neath Port Talbot Council. \u201cThe aviation sector urgently needs solutions and this a great example of how innovation across multiple sectors can support a domestic sustainable aviation industry, right here in Neath Port Talbot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The feedstock for the planned facility would be waste gases, including potentially from Tata Steel\u2019s adjacent steelworks in Port Talbot. These would be transformed via LanzaTech\u2019s gas fermentation platform to make ethanol as a feedstock for the ATJ facility. LanzaTech have selected Fluor Corporation, a leading global engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) firm, to provide Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) services for this part of the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith more than 110 years in the industry, Fluor brings world class front-end engineering and EPC firm experience to assist LanzaTech in deploying its technology,\u201d said Jason Kraynek, president, Production & Fuels, Fluor Corporation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In a second step the ethanol would be turned into SAF using the LanzaJet\u2122 Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) process, which incorporates Technip Energies \u2018ethanol to ethylene\u2019 Hummingbird\u2122 technology. This would be the world\u2019s first commercial scale integration of Gas Fermentation (GF) and ATJ to produce SAF with GHG reductions expected to be greater than 70% relative to conventional jet fuel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for Tata Steel in the UK said: \u201cAchieving our ambition of making CO2<\/sub>\u00a0neutral steel involves looking at all ways to reduce our emissions, or in this case, potentially transforming some of our waste gases into useful products such as jet fuel.\u201d<\/p>

Bhaskar Patel, Technip Energies \u2013 SVP Sustainable Fuels, Chemicals and Circularity stated \u201cWe are excited to be partnering with LanzaTech\u2122 through our teams in the UK on this journey to help decarbonise the UK aviation industry.\u00a0 The implementation of T.EN\u2019s Hummingbird\u2122 technology integrated within the LanzaJet\u2122 ATJ process provides a \u2018best in class\u2019 technology pathway for conversion of ethanol to SAF\u201d.<\/p>

Jimmy Samartzis, CEO, LanzaJet said: \u201cProject DRAGON will contribute roughly 10% of the entire UK Mandate for SAF by 2030. That\u2019s significant, and government leadership like this is paving the way for emerging industries like SAF to achieve these ambitious and necessary goals. LanzaJet\u2019s alcohol-to-jet technology paired with LanzaTech\u2019s gas fermentation process is changing how we think about the circular economy across the world and driving decarbonization for aviation. We\u2019re thrilled to be partnering with LanzaTech on this work and we\u2019re grateful for this support from the UK Department for Transport.\u201d \u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Department for Transport\u2019s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) Competition was established to support the UK advanced fuels sector in development and commercial deployment of innovative fuel production technologies that are capable of significantly reducing near-term UK aviation emissions, strengthening the UK project pipeline, and broadening technology options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LanzaTech<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Headquartered in Skokie, Ill., LanzaTech transforms waste carbon into materials such as sustainable fuels, fabrics, packaging, and other products. Using a variety of waste feedstocks, LanzaTech\u2019s technology platform highlights a future where consumers are not dependent on virgin fossil feedstocks for everything in their daily lives. LanzaTech\u2019s goal is to challenge and change the way the world uses carbon, enabling a new circular carbon economy where carbon is reused rather than wasted, skies and oceans are kept clean, and pollution becomes a thing of the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LanzaTech UK Ltd., a subsidiary of LanzaTech NZ, Inc. (\u201cLanzaTech\u201d), an innovative Carbon Capture and Transformation (\u201cCCT\u201d) company, has announced that its DRAGON facility project has received a \u00a325M (~$31M) grant from the UK Department for Transport\u2019s Advanced Fuels Fund Competition. LanzaTech\u2019s Project DRAGON, which stands for\u00a0Decarbonizing and\u00a0Reimagining\u00a0Aviation for the\u00a0Goal\u00a0Of\u00a0Netzero, will convert waste gases into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Plans for the world\u2019s first commercial-scale factory to transform waste gases into sustainable jet fuel have moved a step closer","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[19340,12366,15849,16792],"supplier":[5077,2392],"class_list":["post-120741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-decarbonisation","tag-fuels","tag-kerosene","tag-saf","supplier-government-of-the-united-kingdom","supplier-lanzatech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120741"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=120741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}