China breakthrough projected to push sustainable jet fuel gross profit margin past 50%

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Chinese researchers report a catalyst that converts synthesis gas into sustainable jet fuel, with a thousand-tonne pilot test demonstrating the process. The researchers project the technology could support greater production, net-zero goals, and gross profit margins above 50 percent.

Chinese researchers have developed a catalyst that converts synthesis gas into sustainable jet fuel – a breakthrough that could boost production, help meet net-zero carbon goals and yield a gross profit margin exceeding 50 per cent. The team verified the efficacy of the chemical catalyst in a thousand-tonne pilot test and found that combining woody biomass-derived synthesis gas, or syngas, with the cobalt-manganese catalyst enabled the “highly efficient synthesis of jet fuel”. Based on a...