Type of post: NEWS.
Essar Oil UK Ltd (Essar) has joined forces with Fulcrum BioEnergy Limited (Fulcrum) and Stanlow Terminals Limited (Essar’s subsidiary company) to create a new facility which will convert non-recyclable household waste into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) for use by airlines operating at UK airports. Press releases:
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Figure 1. The first Fulcrum’s waste-to-fuels plant (Sierra BioFuels) is being constructed in Storey County, approximately 20 miles east of Reno (Nevada, USA)
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Name of the
project
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Fulcrum
NorthPoint
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Location
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Essar Oil
(UK) Limited refinery at Stanlow, Ellesmere Port, in the North West of England.
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Feedstocks
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Several
hundred thousand tons of pre-processed waste, which would have otherwise been
destined for incineration or landfill.
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Product
and production capacity
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100 Ml/year
(30 Mgal/year) of low carbon SAF.
Essar
will assist with the blending and supply the new SAF to airlines, with
Stanlow Terminals Limited providing product storage and logistics solutions
for the project under a long-term agreement.
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Investment
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600 M£.
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Employment
effect
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800
direct and indirect jobs during the design, build and commissioning process
and over 100 permanent jobs during its operation.
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Timeline
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Construction
on Fulcrum NorthPoint, subject to planning permission and financing, is expected
to begin in late 2023 and will take approximately 18-24 months to complete. It
will be operational in late 2025.
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This will be the first Fulcrum plant outside the United States and will use Fulcrum’s proven waste-to-fuel process, which is already being deployed at its pioneering facility outside of Reno (Nevada), where operations are due to begin later this year. Fulcrum has an extensive, global development program underway including the 33 Mgal/year Centerpoint biorefinery in Gary (Indiana, USA), and a similar sized project in the United States Gulf Coast region where the company is finalizing site selection.
By using SAF derived from residual domestic household and commercial waste, greenhouse gas emissions are reduced significantly on a lifecycle basis when compared to fuels produced from conventional crude oil. Such emission reductions are approximately 70% and have the future potential to be fully carbon neutral. In addition, SAF produced at the site offers a 90% reduction in particulates, which may benefit local air quality in and around airports.
