Dr James Paterson CSci CChem MRSC
Applied industrial chemistry for energy will have an exciting role to drive and deliver a Net Zero society.
bp’s Fischer-Tropsch (FT) technology provides a renewable route to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) from municipal solid waste feedstocks (MSW), biomass or CO2. It is deployed at scale by Fulcrum BioEnergy in Nevada, USA, and is licensed to other clients for three future plants. MSW, which would otherwise be sent to landfill, provides a readily available supply of carbon that can be converted to CO and H2 and used in the FT process to make a sustainable fuel for hard to electrify sectors such as aviation. Synthetic fuels burn cleaner due to the absence of sulphur and aromatics, while also producing fewer particulates. As a result, Fischer-Tropsch fuels lead to increased combustion and turbine life, while the enhanced thermal stability reduces deposits on engine components and fuel lines.
James’s innovations in heterogeneous catalysis have had direct benefits for the bp FT technology and these are being actively deployed at Fulcrum BioEnergy, where 175,000 tons of waste will be converted into 11 million gallons of synthetic fuel each year. These innovations have been critical to achieving better product selectivity and catalyst performance.
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