- An international team of engineers, led by the University of Sheffield, has developed a new way of making sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) using solar energy
- Technique could reduce the reliance on used cooking oil to produce SAF - a key barrier to supplying more SAF to the aviation industry and cutting its carbon emissions
- Researchers say the new method could be scaled to industrial levels and have identified potential sustainable fuel hubs in five countries that could supply global aviation
A new way of making sustainable aviation fuel that could cut the reliance on used cooking oil as a feedstock, has been developed by a team of engineers led by the University of Sheffield.
The new technique captures CO2 from the air, combines it with hydrogen and then heats it using concentrated solar energy to produce the fuel.
In a study published in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers used comprehensive computer modelling and simulation to understand how and where this first-of-a-kind technology could function at an industrial scale.
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