Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest: Commercialization Challenges for the Renewable Aviation Fuel Industry

Autor: Richard R. Gustafson, Brian J. Stanton
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Natural resource economics
020209 energy
renewable aviation fuels
Biomass
hybrid poplar
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
engineering.material
Jet fuel
01 natural sciences
Commercialization
lcsh:Technology
lcsh:Chemistry
Bioenergy
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
Aviation fuel
General Materials Science
advanced hardwood biofuels
Instrumentation
lcsh:QH301-705.5
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes
business.industry
lcsh:T
Process Chemistry and Technology
feedstock conversion
General Engineering
Renewable fuels
lcsh:QC1-999
Computer Science Applications
Renewable energy
lcsh:Biology (General)
lcsh:QD1-999
Biofuel
lcsh:TA1-2040
biochemical fuels platform
engineering
Business
lcsh:Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
lcsh:Physics
Zdroj: Applied Sciences, Vol 9, Iss 21, p 4644 (2019)
ISSN: 2076-3417
Popis: A bioenergy summit was organized by Advanced Hardwood Biofuels Northwest (AHB) to debate the barriers to the commercialization of a hybrid poplar biofuels industry for the alternative jet fuels market from the perspective of five years of AHB research and development and two recent surveys of the North American cellulosic biofuels industry. The summit showed that: (1) Growing and converting poplar feedstock to aviation fuels is technically sound, (2) an adequate land base encompassing 6.03 and 12.86 million respective hectares of croplands and rangelands is potentially available for poplar feedstock production, (3) biofuel production is accompanied by a global warming potential that meets the threshold 60% reduction mandated for advanced renewable fuels but (4) the main obstruction to achieving a workable poplar aviation fuels market is making the price competitive with conventional jet fuels. Returns on investment into biomass farms and biorefineries are therefore insufficient to attract private-sector capital the fact notwithstanding that the demand for a reliable and sustainable supply of environmentally well-graded biofuels for civilian and military aviation is clear. Eleven key findings and recommendations are presented as a guide to a strategic plan for a renewed pathway to poplar alternative jet fuels production based upon co-products, refinery co-location with existing industries, monetization of ecosystem services, public-private financing, and researching more efficient and lower-costs conversion methods such as consolidated bioprocessing.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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