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Sustainable Aviation Fuel projects are critical to achieving net zero golas in aviation.

Sustainable aviation fuel from SAF projects is the only energy solution that can be used across all types of flight, including medium and long-haul which account for 73% of all CO2 emissions. This drop-in sustainable fuel can decarbonise existing airline fleets without requiring significant airplane retooling or upgrades.

Velocys was the first FT technology company to successfully design, commission, and operate a gas-to-liquids (GTL) renewable diesel plant using landfill gas for feedstock in the US. The Envia plant project was the first of its kind, capable of producing 1.6 millioin liters of renewable fuel products with peak daily yield of 200 barrels. Velocys FT reactors ran for more than 6,000 producing on-spec fuels. While not a SAF plant, the Envia FT GTL project proved commercial viability of Velocys technology.

The biomass-to-SAF demonstration in Japan used Velocys Fischer-Tropsch reactor technology as part of the process to convert woodchips to aviation fuel. The SAF was ASTM certified and used to fuel a commercial flight by Japan Airlines.

Altalto and Bayou Fuels demonstrate how integrated technology solutions enable clients to produce extremely low-carbon jet fuel. These SAF projects are still in the planning phase.

There are growing levels of regulatory support around the world for the introduction of SAF. The US Inflation Reduction Act created incentives to accelerate the deployment of SAF technologies and served as an early model other governments could follow with an emphasis on technologies that offer a route to negative carbon emissions fuels. The global regulatory shift to carbon reduction is evidenced by the UK Government’s mandate for at least 10% decarbonisation by 2030 and five commercial-scale SAF plants to be in construction by 2025.

While SAF projects have been slow to reach final investment decision, second generation SAF (non-HEFA) remains critical to humanity’s ability to decarbonise airlines.

Velocys is unwavering in our drive to bring SAF projects to bear. We provide the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis solutions needed by all waste-to-SAF, biogas-to-SAF, biomass-to-SAF, and other syngas-dependent SAF pathways.

Biomass-to-SAF

How Velocys’ FT reactor technology was used to produce the first sustainable aviation fuel at a woody biomass-to-SAF plant in Japan

Envia GTL Plant

How Velocys delivered the first commercial Fischer-Tropsch gas-to-liquids renewable fuels plant

Altalto

Waste to jet fuel with British Airways

Bayou Fuels

Woody waste to fuels in rural America
Photo of an airplane wing being fueled. sustainable fuel from SAF projects like Velocys is championing are critical for the decarbonisation of the aviation sector.

Global annual SAF demand set to increase from 4bn litres in 2025 to 166bn in 2050.