ANA and LanzaTech sign agreement for the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel
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Nippon Airways (ANA), Japan's largest airline (on the basis of fleet size),
has signed an offtake agreement with LanzaTech
that will allow it to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), a significant
step in ANA's efforts to minimize its environmental impact. By working with
LanzaTech to implement SAF, ANA hopes to enhance the quality of fuel used in
its aircraft while also meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as
part of its efforts to become the most eco-friendly airline group in the world.
See press release: “ANA Signs Offtake
Agreement for Sustainable Aviation Fuel”, 14/6/2019.
Figure 1. ANA and LanzaTech have signed
agreement for the purchase of sustainable aviation fuel
ANA signed a partnership agreement with Mitsui
& Co., Ltd., which strategically invested in LanzaTech, in 2018, to jointly
develop a SAF manufacturing business that utilizes LanzaTech's catalytic
technology. Working with Mitsui & Co., Ltd, ANA plans to implement these breakthroughs
by testing this fuel made from industrial waste emissions this fall. The
current agreement targets 2021 for the final delivery of the SAF.
LanzaTech’s gas
fermentation process valorizes waste carbon-rich gases to obtain ethanol which is
upgraded to an alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) through a
catalytic process and a proprietary catalyst developed by PNNL. The catalyst
removes oxygen from the ethanol in the form of water, and then combines the
remaining hydrocarbon molecules to create chains large enough for producing jet
fuel without aromatics.