UK project to use Fischer-Tropsch technology to produce sustainable aviation fuels

UK-based power-to-liquid sustainable e-fuels development company Carbon Neutral Fuels has announced its choice of technology partners for its flagship e-fuels facility, to be constructed at Workington in north-west England. The development of this facility, which would produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), was designated Project Starling, with construction planned to start in 2028 and production to commence in 2031. The technology partners were global sustainable technologies group Johnson Matthey and global major energy group bp, with their FT CANS technology, and US global major hydrocarbon and petrochemical technology company Honeywell UOP, with its Fischer-Tropsch (FT) Unicracking process technology. The FT CANS technology would convert synthesis gas from captured CO2 and water into synthetic crude oil. The FT Unicracking technology would then convert this into synthetic kerosene. The plant would have an annual production capacity of 25 000 t of SAF.