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🗓️ 18 August 2025
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Dr Jane Jin, founder and chief operating officer of OXCCU, discusses the complexity of developing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), the history of how it has been deployed in the past and just how impactful viable could be for the environment and the aviation industry.
OXCCU is a spinout from the University of Oxford developing technology to turn waste carbon into sustainable aviation fuel as well as climate friendly chemical products and biodegradable plastics.
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0:00.0 | So OXCU, we are developing technology for the second generation, third generation SAF. |
0:13.3 | So we call that in our kind of little circle industry, we call that ESAF, which is use electricity as the power to convert, |
0:23.6 | you know, some of the molecules to aviation field. |
0:26.6 | Also, University Innovation has been supporting the innovation from the university for over 30 years. |
0:36.6 | So they actually have, I would say, the pipeline. |
0:40.7 | You know, they have a pipeline of technologies coming from the university and coming out of the |
0:45.9 | university. In the Oxford has set up over 300 spin out. It was a boom of climate tech in the past four years, five years, before the Trump's, the new |
1:01.6 | policy in the US announced earlier this year, and that has a huge impact. |
1:06.7 | The climate, the temperature is still rising. |
1:10.1 | You know, we still face nothing change in where we are now. |
1:12.6 | But the US, that policy is really not good. |
1:16.6 | You know, I think they should be reconsidered. |
1:22.6 | From the first-time founders to the funds that back them, |
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1:53.8 | Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK |
1:59.0 | tech industry and the destination for all |
2:01.6 | things UK tech related. I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I am joined by a fellow Jane. |
2:07.6 | I think this is the first time I've had a fellow Jane on the program, so it's very exciting for me. |
2:12.1 | Dr Jane, the co-founder of OXCCU, a startup which provides sustainable fuel for the aviation industry. |
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