Germany has entered into the race of cleaner and more carbon-neutral, sustainable energy generation technologies by opening up the world's first plant for the production of clean liquid jet biofuel for the aviation industry. This synthetic kerosene jet fuel is 100% carbon neutral.
The automotive industry is the largest in the world in terms of trillion dollars in revenue generation. Every automotive industry is going all-electric and digital as the global net-zero emission date of 2050 is getting closer. Varieties of different kinds of electric powered ground and road based vehicles are commercial successes. But on the other hand, the aviation industry is not considered a viable option for electric energy consumption for its operation.
E-Kerosene which is also called (SAF) which is the abbreviation of Sustainable Aviation Fuel, is the biofuel that will be produced in the world's first clean jet fuel factory.
German officials say that the era of environment harming high greenhouse emission enabled nonrenewable energy resources like coal, oil, and natural gas enabled economy is going to end. Therefore this synthetic biofuel will help as an alternative to above these conventional forms of energy resources.
This new state-of-the-art plant for the production of bio extracted jet fuel has been established at the town of Werlte, of district Emsland, near the border area between Germany and the Netherlands. This new plant will utilize the electricity from the four wind farms and will also consume water for the production of hydrogen for the biofuel.
The current production capacity of synthetic e-kerosine fuel is limited to just eight barrels a day. Eight barrels is almost equal to 335 gallons which is enough to fly one commercial passenger plane. Right now the total usage of current conventional Aviation kerosene has touched the figure of 95 billion gallons in the year 2019.
Scientists and researchers working in the production plants of the Atmosfair company are very optimistic about the future of this synthetic jet fuel. They say that manufacturing of this special kind of synthetic e-Kerosene shows that the aim of their non-profit organization is attainable as they have shown the world about their production processes. This whole concept can only be economically feasible if synthetic jet fuel is produced on a mass scale for global use.
Production and usage of synthetic e-kerosene are like a new paradigm shift to the climate-friendly aviation industry, which is a new phenomenon in an industry surviving only due to the presence of conventional natural fossil fuels, i.e diesel. We have seen a recent boom in the solar and wind power energy sector by making their production, installation, and working cheaper to obtain and use by the general public. Mass production of synthetic e-fuels will bring their prices even lower than current unhealthy & environmentally disastrous fossil fuel energy sources.
Lufthansa, which is the largest Airline in Germany and the second-largest airline in the whole of Europe has come forward as the first customer for this synthetic kerosene from Atmosfair company.
The Chief Executive officer of the Atmosfair company is very optimistic that with mass production the price of this new e-jet fuel will be available at 5 Euro or $5.80 per liter. Though this price will be much higher as compared with the current conventional airline kerosene, this cost will be equally borne by the end-users of the airline industries and lots of other intermediaries.
With the establishment of a mandatory quota for the utilization of e-fuel by every international and European airline company, demand for this fuel will be created.
The USA will replace all environmentally harmful emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) like Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Methane (CH4), and Nitrous Oxide (N2O) are the major gases from their Arial transportation system by 2050. European countries will follow this approach and reduce their greenhouse gases emissions to 28% by 2050.
The current cost of production of this synthetic bio-fuel for airlines is too high. Therefore, a mixture of this synthetic jet fuel and conventional fossil fuel will be used at the beginning of the project. Atmosfair company will deploy 100% pure e-fuel and demand for synthetic fuel will be increased by the international and European Airline Industry.
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