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Sustainable Jet Fuel Company Reaches Funding Milestone

With help from the UK government and partners Shell and British Airways, U.S.-based Velocys will progress with a waste-to-jet fuel project in the UK.

By Curt Epstein • Business Aviation Services Editor

July 16, 2018

Texas-based renewable fuels company Velocys has secured £4.9 million ($6.49 million) in development funding, enough to permit it to progress past the initial feasibility stage to the next phase in its waste-to-sustainable jet fuel project in the UK. That will include a detailed pre-front-end engineering and design study and site permitting activities for the first plant of its kind in the UK. Once complete, the plant, which will use gassification technology licensed from Advanced Plasma Solutions, is anticipated to convert hundreds of thousands of tons of post-recycled waste otherwise destined for landfill or incineration, into cleaner burning, sustainable fuels.

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