Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) from Renewable Sources
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A: Sustainable Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2024) | Viewed by 1054
Special Issue Editors
Interests: inorganic chemistry and catalysis; new synthetic pathways to functional materials; renewable fuels production and processes; biomass conversion catalysis
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; process scale-up for catalyst synthesis and testing; renewable fuels and chemicals
Interests: chemical kinetics and reaction engineering; complex reaction networks; reactor design and scale-up; multiscale heat- and mass-transfer phenomena; catalytic upgrading of waste-derived feedstocks to high-value fuels and chemicals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) are being promoted by multiple governmental agencies and industry to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the aviation industry, which is crucial to combat global climate change. SAFs are biofuels used to power aircraft that have similar properties to conventional jet fuel, but with a smaller carbon footprint. This is an attractive decarbonization option for aviation because it does not require modification of aircraft or refueling infrastructure. Reduction of the life-cycle GHG emissions of SAFs greatly depends on the feedstock and technologies used to produce it. SAFs made from various renewable resources, such as CO2, biomass and waste resources, have the potential to lower the industry’s carbon footprint, giving airlines the opportunity to decouple GHG emissions from flight.
This Special Issue aims to present the most recent advances to address important technological barriers to the scale-up of SAF production. Topics of interest for publication include, but are not limited to:
- Feedstock: this is a critically important contributor to the cost of SAF production, and greatly impacts the conversion technology;
- Improvement in conversion technologies, including thermal chemical, biological and electrical pathways, with varying feedstocks to improve SAF yield and quality as well as production cost;
- Product specifications and compatibility with current aviation industry;
- Techno-economic analysis and life-cycle assessment to compare various feedstocks and conversion technologies with the production of conventional jet fuel.
Dr. Daniel Ruddy
Dr. Anh To
Dr. Jacob Miller
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable aviation fuels
- conversion technologies
- feedstocks
- techno-economic analysis (TEA)
- life-cycle assessment (LCA)
