Plans for waste-to-jet-fuel plant on Humber Estuary

According to BA, the proposed plant on the Humber Estuary will convert more than half a million tonnes of household and commercial waste into sustainable jet fuel each year. The airline claims that using the fuel will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 70 per cent compared with the fossil fuel equivalent, as well as cutting particulates from engine exhausts by up to 90 per cent and sulphur dioxides almost entirely.

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The project is being led by Altalto Immingham Limited, a subsidiary of renewable fuels company Velocys, whose proprietary technology converts the waste to hydrocarbons. At the heart of the process is a micro-channel Fischer-Tropsch reactor featuring Veolcys’s Actocat catalyst. During this stage, a gas mixture of carbon and hydrogen is converted into the liquid hydrocarbons that form the basis of the sustainable fuel.