The primary Emirates flights working with sustainable aviation gasoline (SAF) supplied by Shell Aviation have taken off from Dubai Worldwide Airport (DXB). Emirates’ flight EK 412 certain for Sydney on Oct. 24 was among the many first to function with SAF.
Shell has equipped 315,000 gallons of blended SAF to be used on the airline’s hub in Dubai. This primary ever provide of SAF to Emirates in Dubai has enabled the airline to energy a lot of missions over the course of the previous couple of weeks.
The blended SAF equipped by Shell into the DXB airport fuelling system was comprised of a ratio of 40 % neat SAF and 60 % typical Jet A-1 gasoline. The chemical traits at this ratio are an identical to standard jet gasoline and might seamlessly be built-in into the prevailing airport gasoline infrastructure in addition to within the engines of your entire Emirates fleet with no modifications required.
In its neat kind, SAF reduces greenhouse gasoline emissions by as much as 80 %* over its life cycle in comparison with typical jet gasoline. Emirates has additionally been monitoring the supply, use and environmental advantages of SAF via Avelia, Shell Aviation’s blockchain powered e-book and declare answer.**
Sir Tim Clark, president Emirates Airline stated, “We’re pushing forward with proactive measures to allow extra sustainable flying now and sooner or later, and powering flights from our Dubai hub is simply one of many steps we’ve taken to scale back emissions and concretely assist our prospects reduce their very own carbon footprint. We nonetheless have a protracted street forward, and we hope that our partnership with Shell Aviation conjures up extra producers to handle the availability gaps and make SAF available in main hubs like Dubai, in addition to different factors on our community.”
Jan Toschka, president of Shell Aviation, stated, “Emirates and Shell have a long-standing historical past of collaboration, and we’re thrilled to proceed this journey collectively to allow SAF utilization within the UAE. This primary-ever provide of SAF to Emirates in Dubai is an instance of what could be achieved when completely different elements of the aviation worth chain come collectively. Our hope is that this milestone will encourage additional developments in SAF adoption all through the aviation business within the UAE and the broader area.”
Earlier this yr, Emirates and Shell signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to discover areas of collaboration round sustainable journey and technology-driven journey experiences. Emirates and Shell agreed to collectively consider mechanisms to scale back journey emissions for Shell’s enterprise journey necessities, and the airline is at the moment utilizing the Avelia platform to allow clear monitoring of the environmental advantages of SAF for is prospects. They can even be exploring methods to reinforce the journey expertise via providing customized merchandise related for immediately’s company vacationers via new applied sciences together with New Distribution Capabilities (NDC). Emirates’ growth of those new choices in NDC present Shell with the chance to be an early adopter of this expertise.
Emirates’ longstanding efforts have been and proceed to be rooted in tangible, significant actions throughout three focus areas that kind its environmental framework: lowering emissions, consuming responsibly and preserving wildlife and habitats. This yr, the airline introduced the institution of a US$ 200 million fund for analysis and growth (R&D) initiatives targeted on lowering the influence of fossil fuels in industrial aviation, representing one of many greatest single commitments of any airline on sustainability. Over the following three years, Emirates will determine partnerships with main organizations engaged on options in superior gasoline and power applied sciences.
Emirates operated the area’s first one hundred pc SAF-powered demonstration flight in January. The airline has been actively championing to strengthen the physique of analysis across the business’s understanding of SAF use in greater blends, its efficiency, security and reliability, supporting standardization and future certification of one hundred pc SAF, which is at the moment not but accredited for normal industrial use.
The airline first started utilizing SAF in 2017, when it uplifted it on a flight from Chicago, and since then, flights from Stockholm, Paris, Lyon and Oslo have additionally operated with blended SAF.
Emirates participates in a spread of business and UAE authorities working teams, together with ongoing stakeholder engagements to assist scale the manufacturing and provide of sustainable aviation gasoline.
* When utilized in neat kind (i.e. unblended) and calculated with established life cycle evaluation (LCA) methodologies, akin to CORSIA methodology
**Scope 3 contains all oblique emissions that happen within the worth chain of a reporting firm.
