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US carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) company LanzaTech Global (LanzaTech) will develop a €500m ($587m) commercial-scale alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility at North Sea Port in Ghent, Belgium.
The project, branded FLITE, is backed by EU Horizon 2020 funding and is intended to be Europe’s first commercial-scale ATJ SAF facility using LanzaJet ATJ technology.
LanzaTech told gasworld that operations at the Ghent SAF plant, which will produce around 79,000 tonnes of SAF and 9,000 tonnes of renewable diesel annually, are targeted within five years.
At the site, LanzaTech will use LanzaJet’s proprietary ATJ technology to convert low-carbon ethanol into synthetic paraffinic kerosene using a continuous catalytic process.
The ethanol feedstock will either be sourced from recycled carbon ethanol derived from industrial emissions or ethanol from agricultural waste. Both processes rely on integrated bio-fermentation technology to produce low-carbon ethanol.
Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech, said front-end engineering and design (FEED) of the North Sea Port facility is substantially complete, with SAF offtake frameworks in place.
SAF production at the facility is designed to be fully compliant with CORSIA, EU ReFuelEU Aviation, and UK SAF Mandate regulations.
LanzaTech is a member of the FLITE (Fuel via Low carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium which is backed by EU Horizon 2020 funding.
The Horizon scheme supports scientific and technological developments in the European Research Area (ERA). Between 2021 to 2027, the organisation has a budget of €95.5bn ($112bn).
