Johnson Matthey (JM) is investing in DG Fuels' award-winning Fischer-Tropsch (developed in collaboration with BP) for DG Fuels' first sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana. FT) announced the selection of CANS™ technology. , we.
This plant will be the largest installation of FT CANS to date, seven times larger than previously announced projects using this technology.
DG Fuels is an emerging leader in renewable hydrogen and bio-based synthetic SAF and diesel fuels. The proposed US$4 billion DG Fuels plant will produce 600,000 tpy of SAF when fully operational, making it the largest non-HEFA SAF production plant announced.1 root. DG Fuels plans 10 more of his SAF production plants across the United States. These will be modeled after plants in Louisiana, with JM and BP selected as partners for these facilities.
Fuel at the Louisiana plant will be produced from waste biomass. DG Fuels is expected to purchase approximately US$120 million of sugarcane waste annually, one-third of which will be purchased from farmers in St. James Parish. JM and BP's FT CANS technology converts this biomass-derived syngas into synthetic crude oil, which is further processed to produce synthetic kerosene, which is then mixed with conventional jet fuel to produce SAF.
Current international certification for this SAF requires up to 50% blending with fossil kerosene to create a “drop-in SAF”. Based on the fuel consumption rates of a typical wide-body aircraft traveling the distance from London to New York, the plant's planned SAF production capacity is equivalent to the fuel needed for more than 30,000 transatlantic flights per year after blending. equivalent to more than 3% of annual fuel consumption. Traffic currently flying on that route.
The factory is scheduled to begin production by 2028. DG Fuels already has offtake agreements in place with major airlines, including multi-year agreements with both Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines. DG Fuels has a strategic partnership with Airbus to make SAF available at scale around the world.
Maurits van Tol, CEO of Catalyst Technology at Johnson Matthey, said: “The scale of this project is truly exciting and will help the industry move closer to widespread use of SAF. “We have ambitious plans and the fact is that they are secured.” ”
Noemie Turner, vice president of technology development and commercialization at BP, said: “The aviation industry is looking to significantly expand its use of SAFs, and DG Fuels has put our technology at the heart of its ambitious plans. I'm proud to have chosen it.” Our FT CANS technology solution brings together decades of science and engineering expertise from BP and his JM, and this project will span the entire range of production scales and feedstock sources required by the industry. It shows its competitiveness. DG Fuels is growing and we look forward to seeing this project come to fruition. ”
“We are very excited to move forward in collaboration with Johnson Matthey to execute on our unique strategy of high carbon transition,” said Christopher J. Chaput, president of DG Fuels. “We intend to produce products that are responsibly manufactured and used.” “It can immediately replace traditional aviation fuels without any engine adaptations. This partnership is a huge boost to the aviation industry in meeting its climate goals.”
Michael Darcy, CEO of DG Fuels, said: “Using Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS™ technology co-developed by Johnson Matthey and bBP, DG Fuels will be able to mass produce SAF for the first time ever and scale it up at a competitive price. DG Fuels' SAF travels from the sugar cane fields of Louisiana to the clear skies of the world. ”
