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Production of High-quality Fatty Acids Feedstock for use in SAF Productionbroad

GAFT · Horizon Europe grant · 2023-07-03–2025-07-02

EC contribution

€2,499,999

Total cost

€4,025,966

Beneficiaries

2

About the data

Source: CORDIS (official EU open data), Horizon Europe. Framework HORIZON · call HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOR-01 · scheme HORIZON-EIC-ACC-BF · topic HORIZON-EIC-2023-ACCELERATOROPEN-01. CORDIS record →

Objective

COVAL's GAFT project presents two innovations in biofuel production processes, for Formic Acid & for Fatty Acid, both essential for future sustainable aviation fuel.Our patented process to produce potassium formate (PF) out of CO2, water, and renewable electricity enables a higher concentration to be produced using conventional equipment. We then convert this PF to formic acid (FA).We have also developed a non-GMO microorganism that uses FA (and glycerol) as a substrate to produce fatty acids. These fatty acids are used as feedstock for HEFA to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The remaining biomass by-product is a crude microbiological protein that can be used as aquafeed.GAFT dramatically improves the production of SAF by being more energy efficient, using just enough energy to produce a C1 hydrocarbon from CO2 and subsequently, via fermentation, to produce fatty acid feedstock for the only currently available commercial technology to produce SAF, the HEFA process.

Beneficiaries (2)

Organisation	Country	Role	EC contribution	SME
GAFT BV	NL	coordinator	€2,499,999	Yes
COVAL ENERGY BV	NL	thirdParty	€0	Yes

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