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GREEN AVIATION
DG Fuels choses Johnson Matthey and BP technology

for US SAF facility

US-based DG Fuels has chosen
Johnson Matthey and BP’s co-deve-
loped Fischer Tropsch (FT) CANS
technology for its first sustainable
aviation fuel (SAF) plant.

Located in Louisiana, USA, the
proposed $4-bn DG Fuels plant would
be the “largest deployment” of the FT
technology to date, said to be seven
times larger than any previously derived from this biomass to synthetic Johnson Matthey, commented, “The
announced project using this technology. crude, which is then further processed size of this project is truly exciting and
The facility has a planned capacity of to produce the synthetic kerosene that would help take the industry closer to
13,000 barrels per day – capable, after is then blended with conventional jet wide-scale use of SAF. DG Fuels has
blending to 50%, of producing enough fuel to produce SAF. DG Fuels has ambitious plans and the fact it has
SAF for more than 30,000 transatlantic already secured offtake agreements with secured agreements with major airlines
flights annually. The plant is expected Delta Air Lines and Air France-KLM, demonstrates there is appetite in the
to start production by 2028. Current and has a strategic partnership with market. Our FT CANS technology
international certification for this SAF Airbus to scale up the use of SAF globally. enables cost-effective deployment across
requires a blend of up to 50% with a wide range of project sizes.” Mr.
fossil kerosene to create “drop-in SAF”. DG Fuels is planning 10 more SAF Michael Darcy, CEO of DG Fuels, added,
production plants across the US. These “Using the FT CANS technology
The fuel at the Louisiana plant is would be modelled on the Louisiana allows DG Fuels to scale SAF at high
expected to be produced from waste plant with JM and BP as the partners of volume production and competitive
biomass. DG Fuels is projected to pur- choice for these facilities. prices for the first time ever. This inno-
chase around $120-mn of sugar cane vation will take DG Fuels’ SAF from
waste annually. JM and BP’s FT CANS Mr. Maurits van Tol, Chief Exe- the sugar cane fields of Louisiana to
technology converts the synthesis gas cutive for Catalyst Technologies at cleaner skies all across the world.”

INFRASTRUCTURE
VTT, GTK and industrial partners begin research

project on hydrogen storage

VTT Technical Research Centre green hydrogen value chain as the pro-
of Finland and Geological Survey of duction and demand of hydrogen needs
Finland (GTK), a geoscience research to be balanced. Storages are necessary
agency operating under the Finnish to enable the stable supply of hydrogen
Government, along with industrial partner to companies utilising green hydrogen,
organisations are launching a research who cannot operate in an economically
project called Hydrogen UnderGround sound way without hydrogen storage.
(HUG) focused on underground storage Storing hydrogen above ground, akin
of hydrogen. This initiative repre- to traditional methods for natural gas,
sents the first public hydrogen storage Hydrogen underground storages are proves impractical for cost and safety
endeavour of this scale in Finland. widely seen to play a critical role in the reasons. Underground storage is recog-

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