Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Jet Fuels
To evaluate the potential of various alternative jet fuels, a consistent set of metrics should be used, capturing the fuels' impact on, for example, climate change, air quality, water and land usage, and production costs. The broad Project 47 objective is to evaluate and compare potential alternative aviation fuels in terms of overall environmental and economic sustainability. Pathways and fuels include synthetic liquid fuels manufactured from coal, biomass, or natural gas; hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids from renewable oils including those from algae; and advanced techniques of converting sugars and alcohols to jet fuel.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Centers of Excellence, Aircraft Noise and Aviation Emissions Mitigation.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $2060000.00
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Contract Numbers:
09-C-NE-MIT-026
09-C-NE-MIT-031
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Sponsor Organizations:
Federal Aviation Administration
800 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC United States 20591 -
Project Managers:
Baniszewski, Daniel
Edwards, James
Harrison, William
Ma, Carl
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Performing Organizations:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA United States 02139 -
Principal Investigators:
Barrett, Steven
- Start Date: 20120810
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20140831
- Source Data: RiP Project 34909
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Air quality; Alternate fuels; Climate change; Environmental impacts; Jet engine fuels; Sustainable transportation
- Subject Areas: Aviation; Energy; I15: Environment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01571713
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Department of Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 09-C-NE-MIT-026, 09-C-NE-MIT-031
- Files: RIP
- Created Date: Jul 29 2015 1:01AM