Rentech fuel goes sky-high in new agreement
Following a series of successful tests by KLM, Japan Airways and Virgin, airlines are queuing up to fill their planes with renewable fuels components.
Now one company will provide them with quarter of a billion gallons of renewable jet fuel a year.
California-based synthetic fuels producer Rentech has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 13 passenger and cargo carriers for a future supply of certified jet fuel from its proposed synthetic fuels and power facility in Mississippi.
The airlines signed up for the Natchez Project off-take are: Air Canada, AirTran Airways, American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines, FedEx Express, JetBlue Airways, Lufthansa German Airlines, Mexicana Airlines, Polar Air Cargo, United Airlines, UPS Airlines and US Airways.
The MOU could serves as the basis of a possible definitive purchase agreement for synthetic jet fuel production of approximately 250 million gallons a year.
Fuel based on the Fischer-Tropsch process, including Rentech's RenJet, is the only alternative jet fuel currently certified for use in commercial aviation at up to a 50/50 blend with traditional jet fuel. RenJet has a lower carbon footprint as well as lower regulated emissions compared to traditional jet fuel.
Using Rentech's patented and proprietary synthetic fuels technology based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, the Natchez Project as currently contemplated would produce approximately 400 million gallons a year of synthetic fuels and chemicals and over 120 megawatts of clean power from fossil feedstocks, with the possible integration of renewable feedstocks processed with Rentech's biomass gasification technologies.
Now one company will provide them with quarter of a billion gallons of renewable jet fuel a year.
California-based synthetic fuels producer Rentech has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with 13 passenger and cargo carriers for a future supply of certified jet fuel from its proposed synthetic fuels and power facility in Mississippi.
The airlines signed up for the Natchez Project off-take are: Air Canada, AirTran Airways, American Airlines, Atlas Air, Delta Air Lines, FedEx Express, JetBlue Airways, Lufthansa German Airlines, Mexicana Airlines, Polar Air Cargo, United Airlines, UPS Airlines and US Airways.
The MOU could serves as the basis of a possible definitive purchase agreement for synthetic jet fuel production of approximately 250 million gallons a year.
Fuel based on the Fischer-Tropsch process, including Rentech's RenJet, is the only alternative jet fuel currently certified for use in commercial aviation at up to a 50/50 blend with traditional jet fuel. RenJet has a lower carbon footprint as well as lower regulated emissions compared to traditional jet fuel.
Using Rentech's patented and proprietary synthetic fuels technology based on Fischer-Tropsch chemistry, the Natchez Project as currently contemplated would produce approximately 400 million gallons a year of synthetic fuels and chemicals and over 120 megawatts of clean power from fossil feedstocks, with the possible integration of renewable feedstocks processed with Rentech's biomass gasification technologies.
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