Technip Energies lands FEED contract for LanzaTech’s DRAGON SAF project

In the UK, Technip Energies announced the award of a contract for the Front End Engineering Design (FEED) phase of LanzaTech’s DRAGON Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Project based on LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet (ATJ) Technology, on track to be one of the first commercial SAF facilities in the UK. 

LanzaTech UK’s DRAGON SAF Project has been awarded supplemental funding through The UK Department for Transport’s Advanced Fuel Fund to help decarbonise aviation fuel in the UK. The flagship facility, to be located in Port Talbot, Wales, will uniquely use feedstock (ethanol) derived from local waste sources, bringing circularity to the project’s green credentials.

The development, which is expected to produce 79 KTA (thousand Tonnes per Annum) (ca. 100million liters/year) of SAF will deploy LanzaJet’s proprietary ATJ technology.  T.EN’s proprietary Hummingbird® technology has been selected for the ethanol to ethylene conversion, which is the first step of the LanzaJet ATJ Process™. Once in production, the plant will produce substantial quantities of low carbon intensity SAF to help the UK realize their net zero ambitions at an accelerated pace. The technology also will produce 10M liters per year of low-carbon intensity, sulfur- free renewable diesel as a valuable co-product. 

This project follows a similar ATJ project being constructed in the US, LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels 10M GPY (38M LPY) ATJ unit, expected to come on stream at the end of 2023.  This project also includes T.EN’s proprietary Hummingbird® technology on the front end, and will be its first commercial plant, and the world’s first ATJ unit.