FREE WEBINAR
Containerized Electrolysers Enable Rapid Development of SAF Production Facilities
Thursday, November 16, 2023 | 2:00 PM CST
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Moderator:
Anna Simet
Editor,
SAF Magazine |
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David Wolff
Industrial Sales Director – North America,
Nel Hydrogen
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Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) is by definition Sustainable – meaning that it meets all the performance requirements for jet fuel, but with a far smaller greenhouse gas footprint. According to the US Dept of Energy, aviation GHG’s make up as much as 12% of US transportation GHG emissions. There are a number of different chemical routes to make SAF using raw materials as diverse as grains, oil crops, algae, used fats and oils, crop residues, trash, even manure and WWT sludge. All of these feedstocks can be chemically modified to create Sustainable Aviation Fuel. The most eye-popping technologies are those that start with pure CO2 from fermentation or other sustainable processes, and combine them with hydrogen to chemically “build” hydrocarbons for SAF.
Beyond the environmental benefits of SAF, the technology shows promise to provide economic and diplomatic benefits as well as environmental advantages. The ability to wrest control of a meaningful portion of the present dependence upon imported hydrocarbons is an exciting side-benefit of this chemical wizardry.
All SAF routes require hydrogen to accomplish the needed chemical reactions to produce hydrocarbons meeting the specifications, storage requirements and operational performance of Jet A. Since the impetus to create SAF is its sustainability, the hydrogen must be sustainably produced as well. Water-electrolysis produced hydrogen, powered with clean energy, provides zero-carbon hydrogen ensuring the highest value SAF with the lowest carbon intensity. By using water electrolysis produced hydrogen powered by clean electricity, SAF producers can get the highest value for their products.
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel is a field with immense demand and very limited supply – wide opportunities
- SAF processes can use regionally-available raw materials to create SAF, thereby minimizing transportation costs and environmental impact, and potentially solving local problems such as solid waste disposal
- SAF enables the US and other countries to regain a degree of independence from the major hydrocarbon production nations
- SAF requires renewable hydrogen, and water electrolysis is the lowest-risk and most operationally flexible way to make that hydrogen
- The water electrolysis industry is gearing up to provide the SAF industry the hydrogen needed
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PDH certificates will be available for all attendees who attend the full presentation.
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