AliphaJet Says New Technology Uses Catalysts Instead Of Hydrogen

AliphaJet, Inc. says it has developed and successfully demonstrated a highly cost-effective catalytic method for making jet biofuel from renewable products such as plant and animal triglycerides and/or fatty acids.

AliphaJet’s "BoxCar" catalytic de-oxygenation process is said to significantly reduce capital and operating costs because it does not require hydrogen to remove the oxygen from the feedstocks. This results in processing facilities which are are less complex, reducing capital costs, zero variable costs for expensive production of hydrogen, and the ability to locate facilities where the renewable inputs are produced, versus the logistics and transportation costs of dealing with a fossil fuel based refinery.
 
CEO Jack Oswald explains, "Our approach is radically different and unlocks a new industry that can meet the US Navy’s goal of replacing 50% of its liquid fuels with renewables by 2020."

AliphaJet says its process can also produce renewable drop-in diesel fuel, gasoline and other hydrocarbon molecules usually derived from fossil fuel oil.

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