Boeing and Zero Petroleum to work collectively to advance sustainable aviation fuels.
Boeing [NYSE: BA] and Zero Petroleum (“Zero”) introduced a collaboration for testing and analyzing the subsequent era of applied sciences to speed up the availability of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF). For Boeing, this represents one other funding in creating SAF globally to scale back aviation’s lifecycle emissions and help the business aviation business’s aim of internet zero by 2050.
Zero’s know-how produces SAF from air and water. The hydrocarbon gas obtains carbon from direct air seize and hydrogen from water electrolysis. This Energy-to-Liquid course of has the potential to considerably cut back emissions throughout the lifecycle, offered there’s an abundance of renewable electrical energy.
Beneath the settlement, Boeing will collectively set up a testing program for Zero’s SAF on the College of Sheffield’s Power Innovation Centre (EIC) and its SAF analysis facility. Boeing is a founding member of the Centre.
Sheila Remes, Boeing vice chairman of Environmental Sustainability mentioned:
SAF is our business’s largest lever in decreasing emissions at this time and into the longer term, however we want extra of it now to allow these reductions.
“Working with innovators world wide resembling Zero is essential as we collaborate to develop new, sustainable pathways to provide and scale-up SAF.”
The Oxfordshire, UK-based vitality firm will profit from Boeing’s initiative to assist progressive gas producers check, mature and scale SAF using its collaboration with the EIC and Boeing’s international SAF and aerospace experience.
Paddy Lowe, CEO of Zero mentioned:
The aviation business wants to maneuver rapidly to satisfy upcoming mandates for de-fossilization and artificial fuels present the one absolutely scalable answer.
“We have now already developed and examined our 100% drop-in artificial jet gas and collaborating with Boeing will now allow us to speed up the qualification course of and put us on the right track for business supply by 2026. Our collaboration with Boeing units an business precedent for the popularity and help for artificial fuels within the international pivot to sustainable options.”
The settlement follows Boeing’s work to assist scale SAF globally by way of business partnerships and coverage advocacy, investments in product compatibility work and Boeing’s personal gas use. Current Boeing international initiatives to advance SAF embody:
- An settlement with Masdar, the Abu Dhabi-based renewable vitality firm, to advance and help the event and adoption of SAF insurance policies within the UAE and past.
- A collaboration with the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials to discover SAF feedstock alternatives in Ethiopia, South Africa and Brazil.
- Becoming a member of the ACT FOR SKY group in Japan to work on the commercialization, promotion and growth of domestically produced SAF.
- A joint research with Avolon, ORIX Aviation, SkyNRG and SFS Eire on the feasibility of SAF manufacturing in Eire.
- Mobilizing our provide chain to finish the testing essential to make sure Boeing business airplanes are 100% suitable by 2030.
- Just lately becoming a member of the World Power Council to drive sustainable vitality transitions.
- Since 2022, Boeing has bought 7.6 million gallons of SAF for its U.S. business airplane operations.
SAF licensed to be used can cut back lifecycle CO2 as much as 85% and holds the best potential to scale back aviation’s emissions over the subsequent 30 years. Nonetheless, the important thing challenges to better use of SAF are the restricted provide and excessive value. Present use of SAF represents 0.1% of worldwide jet gas demand.
Highlights:
- Zero Petroleum’s sustainable aviation gas (SAF) know-how will likely be examined within the UK
- Settlement follows latest Boeing SAF collaborations within the UAE, Japan, Eire, Ethiopia and Brazil
Boeing and Zero Petroleum to Work Collectively to Advance Sustainable Aviation Fuels, DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, November 14, 2023
