CARE-O-SENE research project will develop advanced catalysts
for sustainable aviation fuels
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa,
May 25, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Sasol
(JSE: SOL, NYSE SSL) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will lead a
consortium to develop and optimise next-generation catalysts that
will play a key role in decarbonising the aviation sector through
sustainable aviation fuels (SAF).
At a ceremony at Sasol's global headquarters in Johannesburg today, South African President
Cyril Ramaphosa and German
Chancellor Olaf Scholz attended the
launch of CARE-O-SENE (Catalyst Research for Sustainable Kerosene)
research project, to be funded by the German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research (BMBF) and Sasol.
Sasol joins forces with five other world-leading organisations
in Germany and South Africa to accelerate the development of
catalysts that are essential to produce green kerosene on a
commercial scale through Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology.
"We are delighted to have been selected to lead this important
project," said Fleetwood Grobler,
President and Chief Executive Officer of Sasol Limited. "Our
expertise in FT technology and catalysts makes us the ideal partner
to help Germany and the world
decarbonise the aviation sector and make it sustainable over the
long-term."
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rech, Scientific
Managing Director of HZB adds, "CARE-O-SENE will enable us to
accelerate innovation in a crucial field of green energy. This can
only be achieved in a global partnership by deeply integrating
fundamental research and technology development on an industry
relevant scale."
Other CARE-O-SENE project partners include the Fraunhofer
Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems (IKTS), the
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the University of
Cape Town, Department of Chemical
Engineering (UCT) and INERATEC GmbH. The consortium expresses its
sincere gratitude to the German Federal Ministry of Education and
Research for supporting these important efforts.
CARE-O-SENE will run for three years and pursues the goal of
setting the course for large-scale commercialisation of green
kerosene production by 2025 with its research on catalysts.
Catalysts are used to speed up chemical reactions, increase the
yield and improve the quality of refined products. The new FT
catalysts are expected to increase the fuel yield of the process to
over 80 percent, thereby optimising use of resources.
Unlike conventional kerosene derived from fossil feedstocks, SAF
can be made from green hydrogen and sustainable carbon dioxide
sources. Developing SAF is key to a sustainable decarbonisation of
the hard-to-abate aviation industry, and the main lever for net
zero aviation. The underlying technology to developing SAF at scale
from green hydrogen and sustainable carbon sources is FT
technology, in which Sasol has been a global leader for more than
70 years.
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