The Swiss Tech Startup Metafuel has presented plans to open its first commercial system for sustainable aviation haulers (SAF) in the port of Rotterdam.
CEO of metafuel Dinosh Kapoor said TNW that TURBE is a “big step forward” to increase SAF production. The startup also announced plans to build a similar facility in Denmark last year.
“Europe has ambitious decarbonization goals, but without scalable and affordable SAF production, aviation will have difficulty keeping up” Kapoor.
The facility, which is referred to as turbe, is built in cooperation with Liquid Energy Storage Provider Evos. Turbe is integrated into the existing Rotterdam termal of EVOS, which offers access to the infrastructure that is required to store green methanol in large quantities.
The “Aerobrew” technology of Metafuels converts a renewable methanol into jet bracelet, whereby the process he claims provides high energy efficiency and up to 90% lower life cycle emissions than conventional radiation fabric. The resulting SAF is “ready” and does not require any changes to aircraft or airport infrastructure.
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Turbe can process bio-methanol-out of biological waste as well as e-methanol, which is recorded with renewable electricity and CO2. This flexibility enables metafuel to react to shifts in the availability of regulations and regulatory demand, the company said.
Kapoor said he assumed Accreditation for his aerobrew process, which it awaits until the end of this year.
According to Metafuel, the new location will produce 12,000 liters of SAF per day in the first phase, with the ambitions scaling ten times the level in the second phase. As a reference, a Boeing 737 Max has a fuel tank of around 26,000 liters, which is a range of around 6,570 km.
Metafuel and the broader aviation industry still have a long way to achieve global and regional destinations for the SAF introduction.
Only invented 0.53% of global aircraft consumption in 2024. The EU would like to change up to 70% by 2050, which requires drastic production of the production of environmentally friendly fuel.
