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🔆 In a watershed moment, Syzygy Plasmonics achieves first fuel from CO2 in North Carolina🔆 It’s official. Our CO2 reforming reactors along with the Fischer-Tropsch technology at RTI International have now produced fuel at the project site in North Carolina! This marks the first time that a chemical reactor using plasmonic catalysis has been scaled up and integrated into a gas-to-liquids system. Days like this are why Suman Khatiwada, PhD and I started this company. They are why we pursued the technology from Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander at Rice University after they published their first research on plasmonic catalysis back in 2016. Not many people have seen the level of work, struggle, and determination it has taken to get here. And while we have had our fair share of lows, the highs are absolutely exhilarating. I can’t express how incredibly proud I am of this team, this collection of superheroes, this incredible group of #Plasmons. With three of our GHG reforming reactors working in parallel at the project site, we produced valuable syngas from harmful carbon dioxide and methane. The syngas was then fed to the Fischer-Tropsch unit to produce crude that can be further refined to jet fuel, diesel, and other fuels. When utilizing captured CO2 and biogas or landfill gas, we’re talking about significantly reducing and potentially eliminating the carbon intensity of jet fuel. This puts Syzygy on a trajectory to offer lower-cost sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and to reduce emissions by a gigaton or more by 2040. We’re not stopping there. With support from the entire Syzygy team and long-time employees like Shreya Shah, PhD and Hossein Robatjazi, we are continuing to build on thousands of hours of successfully testing of Rigel™ reactor cells in Houston, and we’re readying our first shipments. We are also in talks for a potential commercial GHG-to-Jet fuel plant. 2024 is going to be a big year for me and for the entire Syzygy team. The opportunity is now. It is here. And we are seizing it.
🌟PRODUCTION ALERT🌟 In a major milestone, Syzygy and RTI International achieve first fuel from greenhouse gases.⛽ Syzygy's all-electric CO2-to-Fuel pathway can significantly decarbonize transportation by converting two potent greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4), into low-carbon-intensity fuels that can be used to lower the carbon footprint of fossil-based jet fuel, diesel, and gasoline. This project marks the successful integration of multiple Syzygy reactor cells in a multi-cell stack at a third-party site, demonstrating Syzygy’s pathway for scaling its technology. At commercial scale, a typical Syzygy plant will consume nearly 200,000 tons of CO2 per year, the equivalent of taking 45,000 cars off the road. Huge thanks to project sponsors Equinor Ventures and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas! https://hubs.ly/Q02x3YLG0 And a sincere thank you to the Syzygy team. Hari Thirumalai, PhD Harshita Kethireddy Jack Hudson Arturo Quezada Zachary Hernandez Kirk Harstad David Vallejo Marshall Hancock Matoya sherman Christian Godinez LeRoy Holmes Ruben Vela Jonathan Payne Madhav Acharya #Sustainability #Cleantech #SyntheticFuel
Pretty soon you will be saying, I love the smell of jet fuel in the morning.
Tushar Poddar
3mo
Wonderful Achievement!! Spotted you/Syzygy in 2018 OTC while delivering prize winning presentation in the beginning of your Journey... The application of Plasmonic reactor is wide and far in the era of decarbonization... Look forward to Syzygy's presence in Singapore/APAC region.
Deborah Buks
3mo
Where there's a will...
Silas Mähner 🔍🌎
3mo
Holy Buckets! This is amazing Congrats on this - keep up the great work y'all!
Justin Clark
1mo
Beautifully done and congratulations!
Daniel Vasquez
3mo
Inspiring! Way to go Syzygy Plasmonics & Trevor Best!
So excited for and proud of you guys!
Surbhi Lal
3mo
Congrats Trevor Suman and all the Plasmons at Syzygy! Love it! Keep impressing with your amazing work!!
Al Danto
3mo
Congratulations! I remember the very first days of your wild and crazy idea! What an amazing journey!
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
3moThis is a great start. Looks like this is recycling of CO2 and is one of my interests. I am sure that this new fuel uses CO2 and produce CO2 on combustion. What we need to optimize is the cost of energy is used in the capturing and conversion of CO2 and methane to this fuel and compare that with the cost to produce a bbl of fossil fuel. We cannot create mass, and thus we need a lot of CO2 and methane to produce a barrel of this new fuel. In one way it is good as it consumes a large volume of CO2.