Kent has completed the pre-FEED design which included commercial input for Velocys’ Waste to SAF, which has an annual throughput capacity of 500,000 tonnes.

The project partners are:

British Airways will fly with the SAF made in the plant
Velocys will supply its technology to the plant and provide project management, engineering, operations and technical service support to the project
UK Government supports this type of project through the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations

The partners intend to create a UK waste-to-fuels project to be developed by a Development Company of which the above parties, and others, will be shareholders.

The unit will process sufficient feedstock (Municipal Solids Waste (MSW) and/or suitable Commercial and Industrial Waste) to generate approximately 1,500 BPSD of Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) and synthetic naphtha.

Kent delivered the design for the five major processing steps, namely:

Receiving and conditioning the Waste into a suitable RDF for the selected gasifier.
Conversion of the RDF into syngas using gasification, coupled with primary clean-up in order to separate syngas, ash/slag and gasification water.
Syngas cleaning and conditioning to meet the Fischer Tropsch (FT) specifications.