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South African renewable energy firm Phelan Green Hydrogen has licensed technology from British sustainable technology company Johnson Matthey for its planned 140,000 tonnes per annum electro-sustainable aviation fuel (e-SAF) facility in Saldanha Bay, Western Cape, South Africa.
Phelan Green Hydrogen will deploy Johnson Matthey’s integrated HyCOgen and FT CANS technologies to convert captured carbon dioxide (CO2) and green hydrogen into e-SAF using a Fischer-Tropsch reactor.
Johnson Matthey’s technology will support the first phase of the project, which is expected to begin operations by the end of 2026 with an annual e-SAF production capacity of around 35,000 tonnes.
Phelan Green is targeting the UK and European aviation markets for e-SAF sales. At full production, the facility’s output is expected to be equivalent to around 6% of the e-SAF volumes mandated by the UK and EU for 2030.
Blair Phelan, Managing Director of Phelan Green, said, “Securing these licences and engineering agreements with Johnson Matthey completes the technology backbone of our project.”
“We are now ready to… prove that e-SAF can be produced at commercial scale, here in South Africa,” he added.
The e-SAF facility forms part of the broader Phelan Green Hydrogen Project, a R47bn ($2.5bn) private investment that was granted by the South African government in November 2023.
, Phelan Green, through its subsidiary Phelan eFuels, selected US energy solutions provider Honeywell UOP’s Fischer-Tropsch Unicracking technology for the e-SAF facility in Saldanha Bay.
