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Denmark. In such country, the
renewable electricity produced
by the offshore windmills is
already quite large, and in few
years it will become of a
magnitude not manageable by
the electrical grid. Therefore,
eFuels will become an excellent
alternative to exploit such
excess of energy. Site
preparation of the area identified
to build the plant is already
on-going, while building and
environmental permits’
applications are under
development: AEF counts to get
as well as important changes to airport and re-fueling both in place by end of 2023.
infrastructures. For the core units of the plant, AEF has selected the
G2L™ eFuels technology provided by SASOL and
On the contrary, SAF can be used immediately: a TOPSOE (as Single Point Licensor, SPL), both already
market leader has already conducted the first tests of committed since years to find clean energy solutions:
100% SAF in their jet engines, demonstrating that in developing the FEED, TEN will benefit of the
current engines for large civil and business jet successful cooperation, established in previous gas-
applications can operate with 100% SAF as a full to-liquid experiences, with these global technology
“drop-in” option. At present, however, SAF is only leaders.
certified for blends up to 50% with conventional jet fuel A key element in the process scheme is the Water
and can be used on all current commercial engines. Electrolysis Package, necessary for producing
Moreover, a very recent EU declaration has set the hydrogen which will be used, together with recovered
growing percentages of eFuels in SAF blends from bio CO2, as feedstocks to G2L™ eFuels units. AEF
current days until 2050. and TEN are currently selecting the best option for a
system, whose size will be in the order of 250 MW, able
to generate sufficient amount of hydrogen to satisfy
Arcadia eFuels ENDOR Project plant production. For the preparation of water needed
Technip Energies Italy (TEN) has recently signed with by the Electrolysers, AEF has already selected technical
Arcadia eFuels (AEF), a company fully committed to solutions which will be provided by Veolia Water
build facilities to produce the world’s future fuels an Technologies.
Agreement, to develop a Front End Engineering Design By leveraging engineering expertise and
(FEED) for the worldwide first PtL industrial plant able technological capabilities to complement/integrate
to produce 2000 BPD (approximately 100 million liters G2L™ eFuels process, water production &
per year) of eFuels, mainly eKerosene for SAF electrolysis, and some other innovative solutions
application. applied to optimize overall plant CAPEX and
The location selected by AEF for this facility is the efficiency, TEN will definitively support AEF in
harbor of Vordingborg (southern part of Zeeland), in bringing this challenging project to FID and to roll it

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