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local airport. Their aim is to supply five percent of the kerosene required by Hamburg Airport within five years with Raffinerie Heide’s synthetic product.
APPLIED TO SHIPPING
Raffinerie Heide’s chief is already looking beyond aviation and does not exclude other opportunities for use: “If I look towards shipping, results of our re- search work on kerosene as a synthetic fuel could in future be applied in the shipping industry. Like ordi- nary ones, synthetic fuels are liquid, high-energy and what’s more, climate-neutral. So the ‘KER- OSyN100’ project also involves opportunities for shaping the energy revolution in shipping.”
SUBSIDIZED BY FEDERAL FUNDS
Scheduled to last three years, this project alliance is being backed by the German Ministry of Economics and Energy with 4.2 million euros. The ‘KEROSyN100’ research team is currently examining the technological and economic conditions for integrating a synthetic fu- el production plant into the refinery. Since the aim is to harness wind power for this, with numerous wind
farms in the vicinity, Raffinerie Heide’s location is an added advantage. Installed output of around 1.5 giga- watts, along with energy production on the west coast as a whole, makes the Heide region among Europe’s top producers of renewable energy. ■
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