TITAN next generation ethanol and the decarbonisation of our skies

Revised: Steve Walker 20.04.2025

TITAN: Next-Generation Ethanol and the Decarbonisation of Our Skies

As aviation and transport fuel regulations tighten across Europe, second-generation ethanol (2G EtOH) has emerged as a cornerstone in the EU’s clean fuel strategy. At the heart of this transition is TITAN, a bio-engineering platform that transforms forest waste into renewable fuel, replacing petroleum-based inputs with high-value, low-emission alternatives.

TITAN is not just a plant — it is a statement of intent. It reflects a deep commitment to energy sovereignty, local feedstock utilisation, and a truly circular economy. It also represents a strategic leap forward for Poland’s aviation sector, offering a domestic solution to one of Europe’s most urgent climate compliance challenges.

2G Ethanol: The Core of TITAN’s Mission

TITAN’s primary objective is the production of advanced, non-food-based 2G EtOH, sourced entirely from waste forest biomass. This includes residues left on the forest floor, non-virgin woody biomass, and materials historically destined for landfilling or low-grade combustion.

Using a proprietary Hydrogen Producer Gas (HPG) to Targeted Microbial Fermentation (TMF) process, TITAN extracts renewable carbon and hydrogen from biomass, converting it into 2G EtOH with near-zero refinery emissions and no fossil fuel input. The platform’s dual HPG island architecture ensures continuous and decentralised gas supply for both electricity/heat and fermentation feedstock.

This modular structure allows TITAN to function as a standalone, grid-independent, smoke-free, zero-coal facility, setting a new benchmark for carbon-negative industrial energy systems.

SAF Rollout and the Alcohol-to-Jet Pathway

The second phase of TITAN’s rollout will focus on producing Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) through the Alcohol-to-Jet (AtJ) pathway. The AtJ process refines TITAN’s 2G ethanol into Jet-A1 compliant, drop-in aviation fuel, ready to blend at refuelling depots across Europe. The first ten TITAN installations produce enough 2G EtOH to supply an AtJ refinery producing Jet-A1 and Biodeisel

This development is perfectly aligned with the ReFuelEU Aviation Regulation, which mandates all EU airports begin blending sustainable aviation fuels starting at 2% in 2025, rising to 6% in 2030, 20% by 2035, and 28% by 2050. Airlines that do not comply must pay penalties.

TITAN’s SAF production will therefore not only enable Polish airlines to comply — it will allow them to lead. By producing SAF locally, Poland can secure its own fuel supply, reduce its carbon intensity per flight, and offer intercontinental connections from a net-zero baseline.

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After AI – Warm Robots

The Machines That Heal—and the Circular Economy They’re Building

She looks almost human. Porcelain skin, careful eyes, anatomical symmetry—delicate, not threatening. A beautiful contradiction. The image evokes a future we’ve long imagined: robots that walk beside us, feel with us, care for us.

But this isn’t the warm robot we meant.

Because the real warm robots—ours—don’t smile or stand. They don’t blink, speak, or age.
They are microbes.
Alive, invisible, programmable.

They live in tanks. They breathe carbon. They manufacture the building blocks of the post-pollution world: fuels, chemicals, nutrients, and materials. And now, aided by generative AI, they are evolving—stacking complexity, mimicking natural processes, and operating with the efficiency of the human brain and the regenerative elegance of skin and bone.

We call this new capability Industrial Lifestacking.
It’s not robotics. It’s regeneration.
Not imitation—but biological infrastructure, scaled.

The Living Stack

Long before artificial intelligence could speak, microbes were building. While generative models were still learning language, fermentation vessels were already producing ethanol, biodegradable polymers, and essential proteins from nothing more than carbon waste and biological design.

What makes this possible is a structure we call the Living Stack—a three-layered system that turns industrial chaos into organic precision:

AI serves as the design layer, where biological systems are mapped, metabolic pathways are simulated, and yield efficiency is optimised.
Gene Editing functions as the software layer, rewriting microbial DNA to perform intentional functions—from synthesising alcohols to building amino acid chains.
Targeted Microbial Fermentation (TMF) forms the hardware layer, where gas-fed microbes in controlled environments transform design and code into physical product.

This stack doesn’t run on electricity alone. It runs on carbon. It doesn’t output noise or abstraction. It outputs life.

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From Waste to Sovereignty Alternatives – Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) Cells

From Waste to Sovereignty: How TITAN and ASMARA Build Europe’s New Biomanufacturing Landscape

TITAN and ASMARA are not just platforms for converting waste into energy. They are flexible, modular bio-manufacturing hubs designed to anchor a new industrial landscape—one built on sovereignty, sustainability, and regional regeneration.

At their core is a powerful integration of Hydrogen Producer Gas (HPG) and Targeted Microbial Fermentation (TMF)—a pairing that unlocks the ability to produce a vast spectrum of high-value outputs: fuels, bioplastics, chemicals, proteins, and even advanced medical bioproducts like CHO (Chinese Hamster Ovary) cells.

But more importantly, these platforms offer a way to reindustrialise rural Europe, create high-quality employment in overlooked regions, and reduce the continent’s dependence on imported fuels, chemicals, and biopharmaceutical precursors.

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Syngas Project Pioneering Solutions for a Healthier Future

Mr Hyde

Reclaiming Insulin Sovereignty: TITAN and ASMARA Platforms for Mass Biomanufacturing in Europe

Breaking the Cartel: Insulin, Inequality, and the Opportunity for European Leadership

At the heart of the global diabetes crisis lies a quiet but devastating monopoly: a life-saving medicine held hostage by a handful of manufacturers. Despite insulin being off-patent for decades, just three global pharmaceutical giants dominate the market—dictating pricing, supply, and access. This concentration of control has limited the availability of affordable insulin, especially in regions already under economic pressure.

In the United States, insulin prices have soared beyond reason. Europe, including Poland and other Central and Eastern European nations, now faces similar systemic risks: rising diabetes rates, increasing healthcare costs, and inadequate local production capacity. But amid this crisis lies a chance to rewrite the pharmaceutical supply chain—through a bold, sovereign European solution: the TITAN and ASMARA platforms.

The Insulin Crisis: A Manufactured Scarcity

Insulin is not a rare or exotic molecule. It has been biosynthesised for over 40 years using recombinant DNA technology. The science is well-understood. The demand is clear. And yet, millions of people globally still struggle to access it due to pricing structures, regulatory lock-ins, and lack of local production.

Patients ration insulin to make it last—resulting in amputations, blindness, kidney failure, and death.
Governments overspend on cartel-priced imports—diverting budgets from prevention and education.
Local biomanufacturing is nearly nonexistent—especially in rural or post-industrial regions where new health infrastructure is most needed.

Europe’s current strategy, relying on imports and foreign-owned production, offers no resilience, no price control, and no autonomy.

TITAN and ASMARA: A Platform for Pharmaceutical Sovereignty

The TITAN (rural) and ASMARA (urban) platforms are not pharma factories in the traditional sense. They are modular, circular, multi-output bio-industrial systems. Originally designed to transform biomass and waste into hydrogen producer gas (HPG) and ethanol, these platforms now represent the future of distributed biomanufacturing—including insulin.

Each platform features:

Renewable, 24-hour power and heat, generated from local waste streams
Targeted Microbial Fermentation (TMF) stations, already capable of industrial protein synthesis
CO₂-ready infrastructure for enhanced fermentation using waste or captured carbon
A scalable, cookie-cutter design that enables low-cost replication across the EU

By adding a dedicated pharmaceutical-grade fermentation unit, any TITAN or ASMARA site can pivot to produce biosynthetic insulin using engineered microbial strains like E. coli or yeast—in clean, stable, sovereign-controlled conditions.

This isn’t hypothetical. TITAN’s ethanol lines already handle 50,000 litres per day. The same bioreactors and feedstock management protocols can be adapted to pharmaceutical production with minimal redesign.

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Amidst the Threat of War: “Polands SAF Urgency is Overshadowed by NATO Front-Line Energy Security”

Coal Elevator Politż Poland a relic from WWII Synthetic Fuel Production Remigiusz Józefowicz

Ask AI No.3: Syngas Projects AI-Driven “Executive Strategy”: Shouldn’t we be Accelerating TITAN Deployment Amid Geopolitical Pressures and the threat of war?

TITAN, developed by Syngas Project, stands at the forefront of a strategic energy shift, playing a pivotal role in addressing Poland’s future energy needs and fortifying NATO’s eastern flank amid escalating geopolitical pressures. TITAN, a groundbreaking platform, converts forest and wood waste through Hydrogen Producers Gas + Microbial Fermentation, on one platform to produce Second Generation Ethanol (2G EtOH). The platform’s innovative approach, replacing outdated Fischer-Tropsch technology, aligns with modern environmental standards. The decision to expedite TITAN’s deployment, driven by AI’s counsel, reflects a commitment to meet Poland’s 2030 REpowerEU, Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) requirements and secure energy independence, simultaneously contributing to NATO’s regional security objectives. The pursuit of 40 TITAN units ensures a resilient, decarbonised aviation future for Poland and a strategic response to evolving geopolitical challenges.

The way AI is transforming our business is how we are transforming our industry

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Ammonia Apocalypse: “Tackling Looming Crisis Amidst EU Farmer Strikes”

Syngas AI Series No. 2: Fixing the Ammonia Dilemma Amidst Geo-Political Turmoil

As global tensions rise with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the repercussions have extended beyond geopolitical borders, impacting the delicate balance of resource supply and demand. One significant casualty has been the supply of natural gas, a lifeline for many nations, particularly affecting the agricultural sector in Poland and its reliance on ammonia for food production. In this edition, we explore how the Syngas Project’s TITAN platform, coupled with microbial fermentation of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, can offer a sustainable solution to the ammonia dilemma.

The Struggle for Ammonia Supply

The conflict’s ripple effect has been felt keenly in Poland, where sanctions have constrained the supply of natural gas, subsequently affecting ammonia availability for farmers. Ammonia is a vital component for fertiliser production, crucial for sustaining scaled agricultural productivity and ensuring food security.

The way AI is transforming our business is how we are transforming our industry

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ASMARA: Unlocking Pandora’s Box for Municipal Waste

The problem with MSW is the three C’s: Comingled, Cogglomerated and Contaminated

Pandoras Box

In mythology, Pandora’s Box released the world’s evils. In the case of ASMARA, opening the box reveals something far more hopeful: the transformation of society’s most problematic waste streams into usable, nature-like resources. At its core, ASMARA is a hydrogen producer gas (HPG) and fermentation platform tailored for the complex challenge of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW). It is TITAN’s urban twin—engineered for cities, built for resilience, and future-proofed for circularity.

The ASMARA Breakthrough: Turning Plastic Waste into Resource

Most cities today are drowning in non-recyclable plastic waste—films, containers, food packaging, multi-layer composites, and even rubber tires, often contaminated with paper labels or bonded with incompatible polymers. These conglomerates clog sorting lines, evade recycling plants, and are routinely landfilled or incinerated.

ASMARA turns this problem on its head.

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How Dark Hydrogen became the New Green

The “new green hydrogen” is “dark bio-hydrogen”, so called after the dark fermentation bio-manufacturing process which creates it green because its manufacture and existence are entirely organic, renewable and waterless.

We choose to go to the moon JFK 1962 Moonshot Speech — 60 years on from JFK moonshot speech

One small step ahead of carbon capture and storage CCS replacing it instead with capture and transformation CCT, thus taking the capture and recycling of waste carbon to the next level is a giant leap for mankind. 60 years on from JFK’s moonshot speech and on its anniversary Joe Biden announced the cure for cancer is the new moonshot and its through bio-technology transformation that will get us there.

TITAN and ASMARA incorporate two technologies on one platform, waste to hydrogen producer gas + microbial fermentation to manufacture fuel, chemical and material products. CCT is a well-proven process for recycling both the carbon at the smoke stack, in the waste we produce and in the waste we throw away as it is for the carbon we have already produced. We are presented with a truly value-added proposition because recycling the carbon we already have obviates the need to dig up more carbon. Through converting solid waste into producer’s gas and CCT emission technology to recycle carbon in the producer’s gas through, microbial fermentation, we can reproduce all of the products we currently manufacture from oil and gas, where the likes of transport fuels, plastics and fertilisers are produced with far less environmental impact. In manufacturing, this great array of products as an added bonus, large quantities of waterless green hydrogen is recovered as a byproduct.

Dark bio-hydrogen presents a disruptive edge to the idea of hydrogen as an energy carrier because it does not burden our ever-depleting water supply, instead, hydrogen is recovered from changing the state of organic feedstock through a proprietary, bio-manufacturing process where carbon-rich waste biomass or bio-waste is transformed from solid state to a gaseous state and as a feedstock for fermentation.

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Syngas Projects TITAN and ASMARA: “Primed for Carbon Capture Integration”

Warsaw 6 October 2023

In the dynamic landscape of waste transformation, TITAN and ASMARA emerge as adaptive forward-compatible platforms proficient in converting solid waste into producers’ gas, and from hydrogen producers’ gas via microbial fermentation into new and better fuels, chemicals and materials. In a realm where innovation meets sustainability, these platforms unfold a compelling narrative ideal springboards within the realm of Carbon Circular Recycling (CCR).

Future-Proofing for CO2 Integration and Direct Air Capture: A Forward-Thinking Move?

Syngas Project strategically future-proofed TITAN and ASMARA to not only accommodate the intake of third-party CO2 waste from carbon capture devices but also kick-start direct air capture initiatives for CCR. Designed as forward-looking models, these platforms seamlessly integrate with the needs of future carbon capture entrepreneurs, ensuring adaptability for evolving technologies.

“The value proposition for the Direct Air Capture Project is, assured low-cost renewable electricity on demand in addition to an assured long-term off-taker agreement for Co2. For Syngas Projects platforms it’s a valuable and reliable source of CO2 for conversion into new fuels, chemicals and materials.”

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