Dragon Humber Alcohol to Jet (AtJ) Facility
The facility will transform sustainably sourced ethanol into sustainable aviation fuel. It is expected to create 50 full-time high quality jobs on-site, alongside further employment in the supply chain.
The facility will produce around 90% sustainable aviation fuel and 10% sustainable diesel. LanzaTech plans to use barges to transport the SAF and renewable diesel across the Humber Estuary to South Killingholme where it will be mixed with fossil kerosene used in planes and distributed through the UK’s jet fuel pipeline network to airports across the UK. None of the SAF or renewable diesel will leave the site by tanker, eliminating road traffic.
When operational, the proposed Alcohol-to-Jet facility in Humber would produce about 80,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel per year, enough to fill 40 Olympic sized swimming pools and replace nearly 1% of the UK’s jet fuel needs.
Proposed site location shown by red line boundary
The design
The design of the facility has been informed by technical, operation and safety requirements. The tallest structure, the flare, would be about 80 metres high with the rest of the development being built to a maximum of about 50 metres. The Alcohol to Jet facility and electrolyser for hydrogen production will occupy land towards the centre of the Saltend Chemical Park. Storage tanks for the ethanol and SAF at located at the southern boundary of the site close to the jetty that will be used to transport ethanol to the site by ship and SAF and renewable diesel from the site by barge.
Image of LanzaJet's existing ‘Freedom Pines’ facility in Georgia, US, to illustrate how the development could look – the proposed Humber development is three-times larger in scale