Shell Catalysts & Technologies and ENGIE are working together on the French eSAF project France KerEAUzen in Le Havre. The goal is the production of power-based Sustainable Aviation Fuel from biogenic CO₂ and green hydrogen.
Shell is contributing its XTL Process technology, i.e. a power-to-liquids pathway for producing synthetic fuels such as eSAF. This makes another industrial building block visible — one intended to move eSAF in Europe out of the project pipeline and towards concrete implementation.
This matters for the SAF ramp-up because it addresses exactly the critical factors: technology, location, CO₂ source, green hydrogen and industrial scaling. France KerEAUzen shows that eSAF is increasingly being thought of as a real production pathway, not just as a regulatory target.
Source: global-efuels.com
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