Canada’s wood waste could supply five times its jet fuel demand, Sustaero finds
In Washington DC, Sustaero, a Canadian developer of utility-scale sustainable aviation fuel production facilities, released its white paper, Wood Waste: Canada’s SAF Feedstock Advantage.
The white paper evaluates global SAF feedstocks and finds that while the fats and oils used in Hydroprocessed Esters and Fatty Acids (HEFA) face severe supply limits, wood waste is the single largest feedstock available to decarbonize global jet fuel.
Meeting global SAF targets requires moving beyond scarce lipid feedstocks to abundant, sustainable ones,” said Keith Gillard, CEO of Sustaero. “By pairing Canada’s managed forest residues with low-carbon electricity, we can economically produce drop-in jet fuel with 90% lower carbon intensity and position Canada as a premier global fuel exporter.”
The report noted that Canada holds close to 9% of the world’s forests. Converted via conventional gasification and Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis, Canada’s gross wood waste could supply more than two and a half times current domestic jet fuel demand, it said.
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