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The Challenge of Biokerosene Production

2022-01-26T18:04:04.855Z


The extremely high price of biofuels makes their use irrelevant for airlines. But their promoters intend to lower prices with economies of scale.


While waiting for the technologies of the day after tomorrow around the electric plane or hydrogen, it is aviation biofuels, the "SAF", that will come from half of the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions today today and tomorrow.

This is the conclusion of the Archery Strategy study for the Institut Montaigne published Thursday.

SAFs are fuels produced from agricultural raw materials and food waste.

In the future, they could be made from algae or hydrogen mixed with CO2.

Problem, SAF costs between two to four times more expensive than fossil kerosene.

In this context of high prices, it is not surprising that

"the current SAF production sector is still very little developed at the international level"

, as the authors of the Archery Strategy report write, and that

"the supply remains far below demand.

Manufacturers actually expect states to create demand by setting targets for incorporating SAF into…

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Source: lefigaro

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