ANA, LanzaTech, Mitsui and Suncor launch LanzaJet, a new company that will produce sustainable aviation fuel
Type of post: NEWS.
LanzaTech
has successfully launched LanzaJet, Inc., a new company that will produce
sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for a sector requiring climate friendly fuel
options as it starts to recover from the impacts of COVID-19. All Nippon Airways (ANA, Japanese
airline), Mitsui & Co.,
Ltd. (Mitsui, Japanese trading and investment company) and Suncor Energy Inc. (Suncor, Canadian integrated
energy company) are financially supporting this new venture.
Press release: “LanzaJet Takes Off!”, 2/6/2020.
Related posts:
- “Alcohol-To-Fuel”,
2/7/2018.
- “Virgin
Atlantic flight crosses the ocean using fuel produced from waste carbon
emissions through LanzaTech-PNNL technology”, 8/10/2018.
- “US
Energy Department to invest 14 M$ in a LanzaTech’s integrated biorefinery
project”, 1/11/2019.
Figure 1. ANA, LanzaTech, Mitsui and Suncor
launch LanzaJet, a new company that will produce sustainable aviation fuel
Suncor and Mitsui are investing 15 M$ and 10 M$,
respectively, to establish the company. The funding will be used to build a
demonstration plant that will produce 10 million gallons per year of SAF and
renewable diesel starting from sustainable ethanol sources. Production is
expected to start in early 2022. This initial investment coupled with
participation from ANA will complement the existing
14 M$ grant from the US Department of Energy, enabling the construction of
an integrated biorefinery at LanzaTech’s Freedom Pines site in Soperton (Georgia).
In addition to its equity investment, Suncor
has contracted to take a significant portion of the SAF and renewable diesel
produced at the facility to provide its jet fuel and distillate customers with
sustainable energy solutions. Suncor and Mitsui are aiming to invest further in
the construction of commercial production facilities after the demonstration
meets all its technical and economic targets. With its approach to
commercialization of SAF, LanzaJet is creating regional jobs while enabling
global decarbonization of the aviation sector.
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. Commercialization of this process, called Alcohol-to-Jet has been years in the making, starting with the partnership between LanzaTech and the US Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed a unique catalytic process to upgrade ethanol to alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) which LanzaTech took from the laboratory to pilot scale.
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. Commercialization of this process, called Alcohol-to-Jet has been years in the making, starting with the partnership between LanzaTech and the US Energy Department’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL developed a unique catalytic process to upgrade ethanol to alcohol-to-jet synthetic paraffinic kerosene (ATJ-SPK) which LanzaTech took from the laboratory to pilot scale.
