Teesside £1 Billion Aviation Waste-To-Fuel Plant Expected to Operate by 2027
According to Alfanar, the $1 billion sustainable aviation fuel facility at Teesside has entered the "front end engineering and design" stage and is likely to start producing fuel by 2027.
The initiative aims to transform household garbage into sustainable aviation fuel, and two more such facilities are currently being considered for UK locations for 2030 and 2035.
The project will use Fischer-Tropsch technology and gasification to turn one million tonnes of garbage into 180 million litres of fuel, and green naphtha annually, which Alfanar, a Saudi Arabian company, said was enough to fuel more than 15,000 short-haul aircraft.
Chief investment officer, Mishal Almutlaq, said: “With the third-largest aviation network in the world, and with one of the world’s largest potential offshore CO2 stores, the UK has the industrial and geological advantages to become a global leader in developing green aviation fuel with the lowest possible emissions using CCS technology.”
Source: mrw
