{"id":99368,"date":"2021-10-27T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T05:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=99368"},"modified":"2021-10-22T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T10:35:57","slug":"is-the-first-fossil-free-jet-fuel-made-from-co2-viable-the-us-air-force-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/is-the-first-fossil-free-jet-fuel-made-from-co2-viable-the-us-air-force-thinks-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the first fossil-free jet fuel made from CO2 viable? The US Air Force thinks so"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Berkeley, California-based carbon transformation company\u00a0Twelve<\/a>\u00a0and Tulsa-based\u00a0Emerging Fuels Technology<\/a>\u00a0(EFT) today announced that they have produced the first fossil-free jet fuel from carbon dioxide using an\u00a0electrochemical process. The project received funding from the US Air Force.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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E-Jet Sample No 12. 100% of the carbon in this fuel is from CO2<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The new biofuel, which is called E-Jet, can be used by both commercial and military aviation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biofuels are notoriously expensive<\/a>. But where many processes have proven the ability to yield 65% of jet fuel from initial feedstock, EFT says its process yields more than 80%. EFT has also signed a licensing agreement with Norwegian company Nordic Electrofuel<\/a>, which also makes fossil-replacement fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve and EFT state that fossil-free jet fuel E-Jet is a drop-in replacement for petrochemical-based alternatives, and no changes are required to existing plane design or commercial regulations.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Twelve summarizes how E-Jet is made on its website<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

E-Jet is made with our carbon transformation technology, a new electrochemical reactor and proprietary catalyst that electrifies CO2 and water, which creates synthesis gas, CO + H2, which we then refine into carbon neutral jet fuel.<\/p>

E-Jet is drop-in ready and certified, with the same quality and performance, but has over 90% lower lifecycle emissions. That\u2019s because we source the carbon in our fuel from the air, not the ground \u2014 and, because it has fewer contaminants than petroleum-based fuels, it burns cleaner.<\/p>

In summer 2021, the US Air Force tested and qualified our E-Jet product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Twelve and EFT worked in partnership with the US Air Force\u2019s Operational Energy office through a joint contract with AFWERX, a program office at the Air Force Research Laboratory, and the Small  Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roberto Guerrero<\/a>, deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force for Operational Energy, said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of our main goals with this project was to create a clean jet fuel that enhances security and energy independence without sacrificing operational readiness. The successful completion of the project proves that efficiency and environmental responsibility are not mutually exclusive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Berkeley, California-based carbon transformation company\u00a0Twelve\u00a0and Tulsa-based\u00a0Emerging Fuels Technology\u00a0(EFT) today announced that they have produced the first fossil-free jet fuel from carbon dioxide using an\u00a0electrochemical process. The project received funding from the US Air Force. The new biofuel, which is called E-Jet, can be used by both commercial and military aviation. Biofuels are notoriously expensive. But where […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Twelve and EFT in partnership with the US Air Force\u2019s Operational Energy office have produced the first fossil-free jet fuel from carbon dioxide using an electrochemical process","footnotes":""},"categories":[5571],"tags":[10794,10744,10617,10743],"supplier":[3705,15078,18767],"class_list":["post-99368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-co2-based","tag-aviationfuel","tag-carboncapture","tag-jetfuel","tag-useco2","supplier-air-force-office-of-scientific-research","supplier-emerging-fuels-technology-eft","supplier-twelve-formerly-opus12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99368"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=99368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}