Greenflexjet to Produce Advanced Sustainable Aviation Biofuel

GreenFlexJET is an EU funded project that is developing a pre-commercial demonstration plant to produce sustainable aviation fuel from waste vegetable oil and organic solid waste biomass. The plant will demonstrate the integration of the SABR-TCR technology i.e., transesterification (TRANS), hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) and hydrocracking/isomerisation (HC) and Thermo-Catalytic Reforming (TCR®) combined with hydrogen separation through pressure swing adsorption (PSA) to produce a fully equivalent jet fuel (compliant with ASTM D7566 Standards). The project plant installed close to waste sources and product off-takers at Gloucestershire Park of Science and Technology, Berkeley (UK) will produce 1,200 tonnes of jet fuel from around 3,600 tonnes of waste vegetable oil and 3,500 tonnes of dried organic waste per year. The demonstration plant will provide a real example of how sustainable aviation biofuels can be produced economically on a large scale, whilst simultaneously addressing social and environmental sustainability.