ecoFT Company Profile - Book - Page 17
SYNTHETIC JET
FUEL PIONEER
Sasol has been the global
leader in developing,
certifying, producing and
marketing synthetic jet
fuel.
Sasol Fuels Research team was instrumental in the first ASTM certification of alternative
synthetic fuels under FT Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (FT-SPK) classification in 2009. This
certification is applicable synthetic jet fuels made generally through “anything-to-liquid”
(XtL) process with FT at the core of the hydrocarbon production process (i.e. coal, gas,
biomass or power to liquids). FT-SPK from the CtL and GtL processes have been used in
commercial aviation for some time already, most notably by Sasol in South Africa where
blending of FT jet component from Sasol’s Secunda facility with conventional refinery jet
fuel for use at OR Tambo international airport in Johannesburg has been practice for over
a decade. It is expected that current maximum 50 vol% blend limit for synthetic kerosene
will be increased during this decade - this is supported by the formation of an ASTM
Taskforce, in March 2021, looking at 100% alternative synthetic aviation fuel for the future.
1991
Persuit of
synthetic fuels
production
1999
2008
2010
Received
certification for
semi-synthetic
jet fuel
Received
certification
for our fully
synthetic jet fuel
First passenger
flight with fully
synthetic jet fuel
TODAY
Global leader in
sythetic jet fuel,,
supplying semisynthetic fuel
locally over the
last decade
Having pioneered the adoption of synthetic jet fuel, Sasol is also the global
leader in developing, certifying, producing and marketing synthetic jet fuel.
In 2010 Sasol made history with the world’s first commercial passenger jet fight
powered solely by synthetic jet fuel produced at our Secunda facility
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