Food waste can become jet fuel through simpler refining and 50-50 blending
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Food waste can become jet fuel through simpler refining and 50-50 blending
The aviation industry accounts for a large portion of global greenhouse gas emissions. Biobased, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) can mitigate climate impacts, but transitioning to SAF faces critical supply chain constraints. A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has developed a method to produce jet-grade fuel from food waste, contributing to a circular bioeconomy. In a paper published in Nature Sustainability, they focu…
Fly causes around two to three percent of global CO2 emissions, and air transport continues to grow. At the same time, a significant proportion of food waste ends up in landfills or sewage treatment plants where it is hardly used. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have now shown in a new study that this waste can be used to produce a fuel that is suitable for incorporation into conventional kerosene. Symbol image From th…
University of Illinois Researchers Convert Food Waste Into Sustainable Aviation Fuel
Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new method to produce jet-grade sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using food waste as a primary feedstock. This process converts discarded food materials into fuel suitable for aviation, offering a potential alternative to traditional petroleum-based products as the industry seeks to address greenhouse gas emissions. The
Illinois Study Explores Feasibility of Creating Sustainable Jet Fuel from Food Waste
URBANA, Ill. — The aviation industry accounts for a large portion of global greenhouse gas emissions. Biobased, sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) can mitigate climate impacts, but transitioning to SAF faces critical supply chain constraints. A research team at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has developed a method to produce jet-grade fuel from food waste, contributing to a circular bioeconomy. In a new paper, published in Nature Susta…
Food Waste Becomes Jet Fuel Good Enough to Fly On Its Own
Scrape the plates from a city’s worth of dinners, slurry it into a continuous reactor, and hold it in water at 280 degrees and pressures that would crush a submarine. Wait half an hour. What pours out the other end is not soup but crude oil, the same black, energy-dense liquid that took the planet tens of millions of years to brew underground. The trick is geological alchemy without the geology, and it sits at the heart of a refinery that a team…
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