Futuria DME is an energy supply, similar to LPG, but can reduce CO2 emissions by up to 70%* compared to fossil transport fuels. It’s produced from a wide range of renewable feedstocks and residues, including black bin bag waste, and helps you to decarbonise your energy supply significantly.
Futuria DME won't be commercially available until 2025. It'll be produced at the UK’s first Futuria DME production plant, located in the freeport of Teesside. Before this, we'll be trialling the fuel with a selection of our commercial customers in the agriculture and asphalt production industries.
By 2040, we’ll offer all our customers 100% sustainable energy solutions. If you’re a business with a large energy requirement (located off the mains gas grid) and are looking at ways to decarbonise, please contact us to learn more about how Futuria DME could help.
Futuria DME can be produced from a wide range of sustainable feedstocks including:
Step 1
The primary feedstock used in making Futuria DME is municipal waste (black bin bag waste). This feedstock is prepared ready for the next stage.
Step 2
Under high pressure and temperature, the feedstock is broken down, producing syngas. Harmful particles are then filtered out. The patented equilibrium approach reformer breaks the gas down further, producing a hydrogen rich syngas. It is now ready to be converted into Futuria DME.
Step 3
DME is synthesized directly with high efficiency in a slurry phase reactor, producing Futuria DME.
Step 4
Futuria DME can be used as an alternative energy source, to reduce carbon emissions.
*NNFCC report, May 2022
