Renewable energy company Phelan Green Hydrogen says it has licensed technologies from advanced metals chemistry company Johnson Matthey Catalyst Technologies for its planned electro‑sustainable aviation fuel (eSAF) facility in the Western Cape, South Africa.
Johnson Matthey’s HyCOgen technology uses a catalysed process to convert CO2 and electrolytic, or green hydrogen into carbon monoxide (CO). This CO is then combined with additional hydrogen to form syngas.
HyCOgen technology integrates with the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) CANS technology, which converts syngas into synthetic crude oil, supporting overall process efficiency. The FT CANS technology was jointly developed and co-owned by Johnson Matthey and oil and energy company bp.
The synthetic crude oil will then be upgraded to produce synthetic paraffinic kerosene, says Phelan Green.
“Securing these licence and engineering agreements with Johnson Matthey completes the technology backbone of our project,” says Phelan Green Group MD Blair Phelan.
