CAPHENIA, EFT extend license agreement

SAF for the Philippines

Cleantech company CAPHENIA and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis firm Emerging Fuels Technology announced extension of their collaboration with the signing of a license agreement.

“We have been working for more than a year with EFT to optimise and integrate our respective technologies. Our strategy has always been to focus on what we are best at and create collaborative partnerships with best-in-class partners,” said Mark Misselhorn, CEO of CAPHENIA.

The two firms also announce completion of the Process Design Package for addition of Fischer Tropsch, Upgrading, and Distillation to CAPHENIA’s pilot facility in Frankfurt. Once completed, the demonstration unit to verify all relevant data needed for the design of commercial-scale plants that are already in the feasibility study phase in several locations in Germany, North America, and Asia.

“This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to developing efficient, globally scalable, sustainable fuel solutions that will significantly contribute to supplying the global demand for bioSAF and eSAF worldwide,” said Kenneth L. Agee, president of EFT.

The unit will also serve as a platform for training plant operators, testing future improvements, and producing certified ASTM 7566 SAF for testing by interested airlines and fuel suppliers.

CAPHENIA began the construction of the pilot facility in late 2024. The facility is expected to be fully operational by early 2026. The work is being partially funded by national innovation programmes in Germany.

CAPHENIA’s Plasma Boudouard Reactor (PBR) uses renewable electricity to convert biomethane, CO2, and water into synthesis gas, which EFT’s Technology Platform then turns into finished SAF ready to drop into the fuel supply.

The SAF produced, through this process, can be both certified as biogenic SAF and as Renewable Fuel of Non-Biogenic Origin (RFNBO), also called e-SAF from renewable electricity and CO2.