Technology & Innovation

Sustainable fueltech Velocys begins advanced engineering and design of Japanese biofuel refinery

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Nicky Godding

Velocys plc, the Oxford-based sustainable fueltech company, is starting the advanced engineering and design phase of its commercial scale biofuel refinery in Japan with its collaboration partner, Toyo Engineering Corporation.

Toyo's engineering study will start to establish commercial-scale production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) in Japan.  During this phase of the project, Toyo will integrate biomass gasification, Velocys' Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology and other process technologies to efficiently convert woody biomass into SAF.  This project is part of the "Biojet Fuel (or SAF) Production Technology Development Project" of the Japanese Government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).

https://www.businessinnovationmag.co.uk/first-commercial-flight-in-the-world-powered-by-wood-chip-thanks-to-oxford-tech-company/

Nicky Godding

Nicky Godding is editor of The Business Magazine. Before her journalism career, she worked mainly in public relations moving into writing when she was invited to launch Retail Watch, a publication covering retail and real estate across Europe. After some years of constant travelling, she tucked away her passport and concentrated on business writing, co-founding a successful regional business magazine. She has interviewed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs who have built multi-million-pound businesses and reported on many science and technology firsts. She reports on the region’s thriving business economy from start-ups, family businesses and multi-million-pound corporations, to the professionals that support their growth and the institutions that educate the next generation of business leaders.

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