Carlos Villalba and Prof. Bertram Lohmüller Ph.D., Managing Directors of GreenSinnergy, a partner company of Export-Akademie Baden-Württemberg, alongside their Argentinean partners, recently presented the ECO-REFINERÍAS DEL SUR project at the Honorable Senate of the Argentine Nation. This innovative project aims to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using the Power to Liquid (PtL) production pathway with the Fischer-Tropsch technology. The system is highly efficient in terms of water and land utilisation and the reduction of CO2 emissions. The project will be based in Chubut, Argentina, a region renowned for its exceptional wind resources.
Planned in three phases, the project has an initial production target of 100,000 tonnes of SAF by 2030, primarily powered by wind energy. This will help reduce CO2 emissions by approximately 500,000 tonnes annually. ECO-REFINERÍAS DEL SUR is also a key part of the “Global Alliance for Sustainable Technology Transfer.” Central to the project is the development of a sustainable economic ecosystem and capacity building through both professional and academic training, which will support this large-scale green industrialization effort.