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Singapore airlines to launch sustainable aviation fuel credits

Posted on June 15, 2022June 15, 2022 by dishanth

Earlier this week, Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced that it would launch the sale of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) credits in July 2022. The move is part of a pilot initiative of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and global investment company Temasek to advance the use of SAF in Singapore.

he credits will be available for purchase to corporate customers and individual passengers as well as air freight forwarders. On offer will be a total of 1,000 SAF credits, corresponding to 1,000 tonnes of neat sustainable fuel uplifted from Singapore Changi Airport, to be blended with conventional jet fuel.

Every credit purchased is expected to reduce CO2 emissions by 2.5 tonnes, for a total of 2,500. Now, this might be a mere fraction of the emissions that the regular fuel still needed – both for regulatory reasons and a lack of supply – is responsible for. However, aviation isn’t going anywhere, neither is climate change, and the transition toward sustainable fuels has to start somewhere. Ms Lee Wen Fen, Senior Vice President Corporate Planning, Singapore Airlines, said,

“As we progress with the SAF pilot in Singapore, we can now offer more opportunities for our corporate customers and travellers to mitigate their carbon emissions using SAF credits, which are registered and accounted for within the RSB Book & Claim System. This will help to accelerate and scale up the collective adoption of SAF, reinforcing our commitment to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050.”

Singapore is hoping to become a regional SAF hub. Photo: Singapore Airlines

By purchasing SAF credits, customers will help stimulate the demand for SAF, which in turn will increase supply. As it becomes more available, even though they are by no means a perfect solution, sustainable fuels will begin to make more of a dent in aviation’s carbon footprint.

Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint in the works

Singapore has its sights set on becoming a South East Asia SAF hub. As part of its Green Plan 2030, Changi has ambitions to become one of the early movers in the region, thus far lagging behind the US and Europe when it comes to production and uptake. Mr Han Kok Juan, Director-General, CAAS, stated,

“The creation of a trusted and vibrant marketplace for the sale and purchase of SAF credits in Singapore will help support the adoption of SAF which is essential for the decarbonisation of the aviation sector and a key element of the Singapore Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint which CAAS is developing.”

Singapore Changi Airport has developed a ‘green plan’ for the remainder of the decade. Photo: Getty Images

Combining offsets and SAF

From Q4, all of SIA’s customers will be able to purchase a mix of SAF credits and carbon offsets as part of the SIA Group Voluntary Carbon Offset Programme, through a partnership with Climate Impact X, a global marketplace and exchange for high-quality carbon credits. Mr Mikkel Larsen, Chief Executive Officer, Climate Impact X, commented,

“SAF credits can help to spur adoption by enabling competitive price discovery, and channelling finance towards projects that can drive the use of sustainable fuels at the scale necessary to support decarbonisation in the aviation sector. Through CIX’s ongoing efforts to curate verified projects for our platforms, we aim to increase access to quality carbon credits worldwide and drive environmental impact at scale.”

Source Simple Flying

Fry the friendly skies: Airports hope it’s sustainable to convert used cooking oil into jet fuel

Posted on June 3, 2022 by dishanth

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport is among the first major hubs to convert yesterday’s french fries to tomorrow’s jet fuel, in a supersize effort to boost sustainable energy efforts.

Used cooking oil, such as the greasy goodness coming from fryers at the DFW McDonald’s restaurants, is being repurposed and converted to fuel in a surprisingly efficient manner, airport officials said.

“If you are Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and you have a fryer in your restaurant — you’re recycling oil,” DFW McDonald’s franchisee Chalmer McWilliams said.

“When it’s no longer at the quality to make those great fries and we can repurpose it, why wouldn’t you do that?”

Pratik Chandhoke, the technical services manager for sustainable aviation fuel at Houston-based Neste US Inc., said the chemical compositions of cooking oil and jet fuel aren’t too far off.

The company strains out leftover fries and McNuggets, heats the oil and adds hydrogen — among other steps — to convert it to jet fuel.

“If you look at any oil, they all have these building molecules, hydrocarbons. We can take those atoms, and we then do some processing magic in our refineries, and we actually mimic the chemistry of a jet fuel,” said Chandhoke, who insisted that fryer-based fuel is exactly the same as all other petroleum fuels going into jets across America today.

“There’s no difference. It’s the same jet fuel that you are using right now.”

San Francisco International Airport said it’s committed to phasing out fossil jet fuel by 2050.

At DFW, about 32,000 pounds of cooking oil is recycled every month to be converted to sustainable aviation fuel, known in the industry as SAF.

The cooking-to-jet-fuel conversion rate is efficient, according to Neste, with 1 gallon of recycled cooking oil amounting to about three-quarters of a gallon of SAF.

The big drawback for now is the high cost of producing the recycled fuel, as the price of SAF is two to six times higher than traditional jet fuel.

But DFW officials said that as more airports covert cooking oil to jet fuel, the prices will bottom out.

“We already believe we have the infrastructure setup. We have fuel distribution systems,” DFW’s vice president of environmental affairs, Robert Horton, told NBC Dallas. “If we can get continuous supply at the right economic rates, we have a drop-in solution that can be applied right here.”

Source NBC News

Manchester Airport first to get direct supply of sustainable jet fuel

Posted on October 31, 2021November 1, 2021 by dishanth

Manchester Airport is to become the first in the UK to have a direct supply of jet fuel made from household and commercial waste.

The sustainable fuel is blended with traditional jet fuel, with a 70% lower carbon footprint.

It will be delivered by existing pipelines from a refinery in Stanlow, Cheshire.

Operations director Rad Taylor said: “It’s really game-changing for the industry.”

He said: “It’s essentially about using non-recyclable waste, which would typically go into landfill, and using that to generate aviation fuel so it’s a real sustainable alternative.”

The airport, part of Manchester Airports Group, will work with Fulcrum BioEnergy Limited UK, which is developing a new refinery for sustainable aviation fuel.

Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng said: “This partnership is a huge leap forward for the long-term competitiveness of Britain’s aerospace sector, demonstrating how, by going green, industry can create jobs and help level-up across the UK.

“Cleaner aerospace and aviation is at the centre of our plans to end the UK’s contribution to climate change by 2050.”

Neil Robinson, MAG’s CSR and airspace change director, said: “Today really is a landmark moment in our journey towards a decarbonised aviation sector.

“By working towards a future supply of SAF, direct to Manchester airport via existing pipelines from a local refinery, we’re making sustainable operations accessible for airlines based here.

“The introduction of SAF is testament to the innovation we have seen, and the collaboration between airports, airlines, the government and suppliers like Fulcrum to achieve real progress towards our goal of net zero for UK aviation by 2050.”

Fulcrum NorthPoint is set to produce around 100 million litres of SAF per year, which when blended 50/50 with traditional jet fuel, could fill the tanks of 1,200 Boeing 777-300s.

Source BBC