Jet fuel from waste - first plant in Europe - BA to make fuel from gasification of waste and Fischer Tropsch conversion of the syngas
Posted by Ben Proudlove on Tue, Feb 16, 2010 @ 05:29 AM
According to the BBC website British Airways is to build the first plant in Europe making jet fuel from waste material using a process of waste gasification (to produce syngas) and the Fischer Tropsch process to convert that syngas to synthetic fuel.
It's planned to be up and running by 2014 and based in east London.
It looks like a natural step for BA to go down this route following the fact that various competitor airlines have already signed up with Rentech for supply of their synthetic fuel from their facility in Mississippi - again produced by gasification and FT conversion.