Samsung E&A stated on Dec. 15 that it signed a contract on Dec. 12 with DG Fuels, a U.S. developer of sustainable aviation gas (SAF) initiatives, for front-end engineering design (FEED) work on the U.S. Louisiana SAF manufacturing undertaking. Samsung E&A will perform the clear hydrogen manufacturing bundle among the many undertaking’s two complete packages. The contract worth is $15.7 million (roughly 23 billion gained), and the execution interval is about 10 months. Following completion of the essential design, Samsung E&A is aiming to safe a follow-on order for the principle undertaking, which is estimated to be value about $3 billion (roughly 4.4 trillion gained).
The undertaking, to be in-built St. James Parish, Louisiana, will use ample waste sources equivalent to agricultural byproducts and woody biomass from the area to provide 600,000 tons of SAF yearly. Samsung E&A can be liable for blue hydrogen amenities together with air separation items, autothermal reformers, and carbon dioxide seize, in addition to inexperienced hydrogen amenities primarily based on water electrolysis know-how.
Following its 1.4 trillion gained SAF order in Malaysia on the finish of final 12 months, Samsung E&A has accelerated its entry into the worldwide SAF market with this newest contract. SAF, which is produced from bio-based feedstocks as a substitute of typical fossil fuels, can considerably scale back carbon emissions and is drawing consideration as a next-generation eco-friendly vitality supply. As main nations more and more mandate the mixing of SAF amid a world decarbonization pattern, the SAF market is predicted to develop steadily.
Samsung E&A has been pursuing investments and collaborations to safe core energy-transition applied sciences, together with SAF, carbon seize, hydrogen, ammonia, and liquefied pure gasoline (LNG), beneath its “E&Ready” technique, which focuses on future energy-transition companies. Lately, the corporate has delivered seen leads to the clean-energy sector by successful orders for initiatives equivalent to a SAF plant in Malaysia, a biodegradable plastics plant within the United Arab Emirates, primary engineering for an eco-friendly LNG plant in Indonesia, conceptual design for an LNG undertaking in North America, and a low-carbon ammonia plant in the USA.
