Lessons from Commissioning the First Commercial CO₂-to-SAF Plant
Ajay Kashi is the Senior Manager of Product Engineering at Twelve, leading efforts to scale and deploy CO₂ electrolysis for commercial sustainable aviation fuel production. In this role, he directs the manufacturing strategy that translates subscale innovations into full-scale CO₂ electrolyzer stacks.
An electrochemist by training and an early key team member at Twelve, Ajay brings over a decade of electrochemical R&D and product development experience, specializing in novel materials design and advanced device optimization.
Lessons from Commissioning the First Commercial CO₂-to-SAF Plant
An inside look at scaling CO₂ electrolysis from subscale innovation to full-scale commercial deployment — the manufacturing strategy, industrial integration, and de-risking lessons behind commissioning the first commercial CO₂-to-SAF facility.
- Deploying low-temperature electrochemical processes to efficiently utilize carbon dioxide and scale modular polymer electrolyte membrane electrolysis architectures
- Converting water, electricity, and captured carbon dioxide into tunable syngas mixtures to produce downstream clean commodity chemicals
- De-risking large-scale commercial facilities by integrating carbon electrolysis within an active, fully operational industrial chemical balance-of-plant
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