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Ireland has the potential to develop a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry generating revenue of €2.55 billion by 2050 and providing up to 1,000 high-skilled jobs. These are the findings of a feasibility study into the production of SAF in Ireland produced by SkyNRG and SFS Ireland, in a partnership supported by Avolon, Boeing and ORIX Aviation. The study – Ireland’s Sustainable…
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The Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) plans to supply sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at Dubai airports from 2024 onwards and is exploring potential to produce SAF both at home in UAE and abroad. “ENOC Group is working closely with strategic partners to secure and blend sustainable aviation fuel, which will not only help to secure this fuel for the future but also support the nation to…
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Emirates has become the world’s first airline to operate an A380 demonstration flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The flight took off from Dubai International Airport with one of four engines powered on 100% SAF. Demonstration flights like the one conducted today pave the way for future standardisation, qualification and adoption for 100% SAF flying, as governments adopt…
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The American Carbon Alliance (ACA) announced that Corn, LP Ethanol Plant in Goldfield, Iowa, has joined as members of the ACA. “We’re happy to partner with the American Carbon Alliance as they work to build support for carbon capture projects across the Midwest. “We know that these new technologies will be transformational for the ethanol industry and we are excited to be a part of…
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The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded £6 million (€6.9 million) in funding to Esso to assess the feasibility of a project at its Fawley petrochemical complex to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The funding, from the DfT’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF), will be used to assess the potential SAF production using ExxonMobil proprietary Methanol to Jet (MtJ) technology. The study…
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Gulfstream Aerospace has successfully completed of the world’s first trans-Atlantic flight using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The flight took place on a Gulfstream G600 aircraft, which departed the company’s headquarters in Savannah on November 19 and landed six hours, 56 minutes later at Farnborough Airport in England. Powered by Pratt & Whitney PW815GA engines, both using 100%…
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Whitefox Technologies has revealed that BGW has installed Whitefox ICE®-XL technology at its 108 MLPY plant in Rąbczyn and is producing both fuel grade and high grade ethanol. BGW is the first European fuel ethanol customer to install this technology. This is a big step for Whitefox as it continues to expand its global presence, with BGW having scaled up from their Whitefox ICE®…
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Project Speedbird – a joint partnership between Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT), LanzaJet and British Airways (BA) – has secured £9 million (€10.2 million) of funding from the Government’s Advanced Fuels Fund (AFF) competition. NPT, a Teesside-based cleantech company developing advanced biofuels used to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), was awarded £7.5 million (€8.5 million)…
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Alfanar was awarded an additional £8.66 million (€9.9 million) in government funding to support the development of their Lighthouse Green Fuels (LGF) advanced sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) facility based on Teesside. LGF will process up to 1 million tonnes of nationally sourced biogenic and non-biogenic wastes and residues per year, which makes it the largest advanced SAF facility in…
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Air France-KLM has made an investment in DG Fuels to support the completion of the developmental work necessary to reach the final investment decision on its initial Louisiana-based sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant. Air France-KLM acquired an option to purchase up to 25 million gallons/75,000 tons of SAF annually over a multi-year period beginning in 2029. This option comes in addition to…
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Emerson has been chosen by DG Fuels to provide comprehensive automation and project engineering to help transportation sector decarbonisation efforts through the production of advanced biofuels. DG Fuels’ mission is to provide ‘drop-in’ cellulosic sustainable aviation fuels at scale, then expand into renewable or green diesel fuels. Its advanced conversion process creates fuels that can…
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Boeing and Zero Petroleum are to collaborate on testing and analysing the next generation of technologies to accelerate the supply of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). For Boeing, this represents another investment in developing SAF globally to reduce aviation’s lifecycle emissions. Zero’s technology produces SAF from air and water. The hydrocarbon fuel obtains carbon from direct air…
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