They are the ones bringing the Fischer Tropsch technology to the British Airways deal.

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It signed with a consortium of companies to create a conversion facility in the UK, utilizing the Fischer Tropsch (FT) technology to convert gas to liquid fuels.

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The technology to be utilized is the Fischer Tropsch process, the same technology to be used to convert landfill gas to airline fuel for British Airways starting in 2014.

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The Germans also used Fischer-Tropsch process to produce high grade diesel fuels from both coal and wood.

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What is interesting is that the conversions of biomass (e.g. switchgrass and salicornia) to synthetic diesel using Fischer-Tropsch (F-T.) and coal to liquids with F.

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The Fischer-Tropsch synthesis is almost 90 years old.

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The air force is working to certify all its aircraft to use synthetic fuels made from gas derived from coal or biomass, using the Fischer-Tropsch method used by Germany during the second world war.

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Fischer-Tropsch derived fuels for aviation have been produced recently for the Department of Defense by U.S. based Syntroleum, and have been successfully tested by the US Air Force in a B-52 jet with all eight of its engines fueled by the mixture.

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