New Britain isn’t necessarily where you’d expect the future of aviation fuel to take shape, but that’s exactly what industrial technology company AIRCO is counting on, writes Lacey Latch for the Bucks County Courier Times.
AIRCO’s technology captures carbon dioxide and combines it with water, hydrogen, and electricity to produce synthetic fuels, including sustainable aviation fuel. Now, the signature technology is coming to Bucks County with the company’s new plant in New Britain.
At the heart of the New Britain plant are AIRCO’s Mobile, Adaptable, and Dynamic (MAD) fuel systems: container-sized units capable of producing fuel on-site, wherever it’s needed. The new systems upend the current process, where fuel is produced at a centralized location and shipped elsewhere later on…