INERATEC and Sasol Germany (GmbH is part of the South African Sasol Group) have signed a five-year supply agreement for the supply of Fischer-Tropsch catalysts.
Sasol expressed excitement about the project, in a statement released yesterday. “This is another step, marking a significant milestone for the journey towards sustainable energy solutions.”
The facility will produce up to 2,500 tonnes of sustainable e-fuels annually, from CO2 and green hydrogen.
The catalysts will be used, among others, in the first large-scale industrial Power-to-Liquid (PtL) plant that INERATEC is currently building in Frankfurt, Germany, which is scheduled to start operations this year.
These will be processed into sustainable synthetic kerosene (sustainable aviation fuel). As a substitute for conventional kerosene, it will make a significant contribution to improving the environmental footprint of aviation.
Sasol also said catalysts influence the nature and speed of the Fischer-Tropsch reaction in the PtL process, thereby increasing the efficiency of the chemical conversion process.
This is significant in improving process yield and significantly increasing fuel production for the same resource input.
Dr Tim Böltken, CEO of INERATEC, said “our aim is to supply our CO2-neutral e-fuels in particular to those sectors that will continue to rely on liquid fuels and chemical molecules in the future, such as aviation, shipping, heavy haulage and the chemical industry. These currently come almost exclusively from fossil sources.”
Boltken said “in order to replace these in a sustainable way, the expansion of our production capacities is key. Productivity plays an important role here. The use of Sasol’s catalysts in INERATEC’s load-flexible PtL plants creates the highest production efficiencies on the market.”
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