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EDL leads consortium for renewable jet fuel
Vienna, 27.06.2019
 

ROTTERDAM THE HAGUE AIRPORT TO BUILD FIRST PLANT FOR RENEWABLE JET FUEL FROM AIR WITH EDL


Rotterdam The Hague Airport and a European consortium led by the Leipzig-based Pörner subsidiary EDL Anlagenbau Gesellschaft mbH signed in late May a cooperation agreement which aims at developing a demonstration plant  that produces renewable jet fuel from air.
Compared to conventional fossil-based jet fuels, renewable jet fuel from air has a significantly lower carbon footprint and fine particles emission. The plant aims to be the first worldwide to offer renewable jet fuel to the market. This project thus demonstrates a significant step towards a carbon neutral aviation industry.
 
The consortium agreed to perform a study first. This study will define the concept and basic engineering for onsite production of renewable jet fuel from air on the premises of the airport. In addition to that the study will enable a cost estimate for both the actual construction of the plant and the fuel itself, which will be decisive for further project development.


Dr. Michael Haid, CEO of EDL, Dr. Dick Benshop, CEO of the Royal Shiphol Group, Ron Louwerse, Director of Rotterdam The Hague Airport, signed the cooperation agreement (from left to right).

The path towards production of renewable jet fuel from air
Following the study, a demonstration plant is to be realized and commissioned on the premises of the airport producing about 1,000 liters of renewable jet fuel per day. This would be the first time ever that renewable jet fuel from air production exceeds laboratory scale of a few liters per day.
A series of highly innovative, but proven technologies are linked to each other to achieve this: First, CO2 is captured from ambient air by Climeworks’ direct air capture technology. The gas is subsequently transformed into syngas through electrolysis, using electrolyser cells developed by Sunfire. Then, the syngas is turned into synthetic hydrocarbons by means of Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, enabled by Ineratec. Finally, EDL takes care of the process to convert synthetic hydrocarbons into jet fuel and of the overall process and plant integration. The entire process runs sustainably, thanks to renewable energy, preferably produced on site from the airport’s solar panels.
 
The first potential customer has also announced itself. Transavia has committed itself to the plan and indicated it intends to reduce its CO2 exhaust with renewable fuel from air in the future.
 
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