KUALA LUMPUR, April 7 -- LanzaJet Inc, a leading sustainable fuel technology company and sustainable fuel producer, announced that Shell has joined as an investor in the company to advance LanzaJet’s global growth, accelerate commercialisation of its technology, and scale the production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).
According to a statement, Shell joins founding investors in LanzaJet, including LanzaTech, Suncor Energy Inc, Mitsui & Co Ltd, and more recently, British Airways, as well as participation from All Nippon Airways.
This innovative phased investment approach significantly accelerates commercial deployment at a time when reducing emissions, especially of aviation, is increasingly important and demonstrates a joint commitment to creating a resilient, low carbon future.
With the right policies to support the uptake and production of SAF, aviation can achieve net-zero emissions.
The investment comes as LanzaJet continues its work to build the first Alcohol-to-Jet facility of its kind globally, a commercial-scale plant (10 million gallons per year capacity) in Soperton, Georgia, USA. Freedom Pines Fuels, as it's called, continues on schedule with operations beginning in 2022.
LanzaJet was launched in June last year following nearly a decade of technology development and commercial scale-up through a partnership by LanzaJet’s founder, LanzaTech, with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
The LanzaJet process can use any source of sustainable ethanol for jet fuel production, including, but not limited to, ethanol made from recycled pollution, the core application of LanzaTech’s carbon recycling platform.
LanzaJet’s technology is uniquely able to produce up to 90 per cent of its fuels as SAF, with the remaining 10 per cent as renewable diesel. The SAF will be blended with conventional fossil jet fuel and be supplied to airports through the existing supply routes.
The versatility in ethanol, and a focus on low-carbon, waste-based, and non-food /non-feed sources, along with ethanol’s global availability, make LanzaJet’s technology a relevant and enduring solution for SAF.
-- BERNAMA
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