Lydian

Lydian Labs, Inc. develops modular plants and project solutions for producing synthetic aviation fuel from captured carbon dioxide and hydrogen. Founded in 2021, the company says its mission is to enable widespread sustainable flight by helping build infrastructure for lower-cost fuel production. Its work combines chemical engineering, power markets, and commercialization.

The company’s PIVOT™ platform is a standardized, turnkey system that integrates the equipment and processes needed to convert carbon dioxide and hydrogen into synthetic jet fuel. Lydian describes the platform as including syngas production, fuel synthesis, and balance-of-plant systems, developed in-house and supplied as an integrated solution. The company says its design is intended to simplify plant construction and operation.

For syngas production, Lydian describes a proprietary reverse water-gas shift reactor using electrothermal heating. The next stage uses a modified Fischer–Tropsch synthesis process, with a compact fuel-synthesis module designed to operate alongside the upstream reactor. The company says the integrated process is designed to respond to intermittent renewable electricity, with a broad operating range that can reduce the need for storage buffers.

Lydian serves several parts of the synthetic-fuels market. Its stated customer groups include airlines, fuel buyers, and corporate offtakers seeking direct sustainable aviation fuel supply, as well as owners and operators of synthetic-fuel production facilities interested in turnkey plants. The company is developing projects for e-SAF made with hydrogen from water electrolysis, along with synthetic fuels made using other hydrogen sources. It describes its intended fuel as drop-in jet fuel compatible with commercial aviation requirements.

Lydian reports that it is producing fuel at a pilot plant at its Boston facility. Its published roadmap identifies a commercial demonstration targeted for 2028 and a full-scale plant targeted for 2030. These are stated plans rather than completed deployments. The company also describes research and development operations that include materials synthesis and characterization, high-throughput experimentation, an integrated pilot, and in-house manufacturing of reactor components.

The company’s public materials frame its work around decarbonizing aviation and enabling energy resilience. Its team, as described on the company site, includes engineers, scientists, and operators, with expertise spanning chemical engineering, power markets, and commercialization. Lydian invites prospective team members to join efforts to develop and deploy synthetic-fuel infrastructure; further details about its workplace practices are not provided in the cited company materials.