Jet Fuel Derived from Steel Mill Waste Gasses

Resource Type
RTM Publication
Publish Date
01/04/2021
Authors
Laurel Harmon, Johnathan Holladay
Topics
Managing Emerging Technologies, Sustainability and ESG, Alliances and Collaborations
Associated Event
Publication

In 2012, LanzaTech and PNNL forged a partnership to produce jet fuel from ethanol. PNNL brought catalysis technology and LanzaTech brought biotechnology. By marrying biotechnology and catalysis, the two teams were able to achieve something special. Their goal was to use the biotechnology to replace a challenging chemical step—namely, joining two C1 molecules efficiently—and then use catalysis to make a number of fuels and chemicals.