Project Number: 001
Category: Alternative Fuels
This project team is evaluating regional supply chains that could be used for alternative jet fuel production including feedstock production, transportation, and fuel conversion. Researchers are evaluating fuel production pathways, feedstock and infrastructure requirements, and commercial fuel demand to create scenarios for future production. In addition, they are identifying potential intermediate materials and co-products for each pathway to understand potential ways to aid in making biorefineries more economical.
Researchers are approaching sustainable jet fuel production holistically, considering technological, environmental, economic, and social elements. The project aims to use these analyses to identify key barriers throughout the alternative jet fuel supply chain that must be overcome to produce and effectively market 1 billion gallons of alternative jet fuel in the near term and 10 billion gallons in the longer term.
This project is also supporting the efforts of the Alternative Fuel Task Force (AFTF) within the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Committee on Aviation Environmental Protection (CAEP) in their efforts to evaluate the potential of alternative jet fuels to help meet aviation environmental goals and to assess the life cycle CO2 emissions from the use of these fuels.
Last Updated 5/4/2020
Annual Reports
2015:
ASCENT 001A (WSU) ASCENT 001B (UH) ASCENT 001C (Purdue) ASCENT 001D (PSU) ASCENT 001E (UT) ASCENT 001F (MIT)
2016:
ASCENT 001A (WSU) ASCENT 001B (UH) ASCENT 001C (Purdue) ASCENT 001D (PSU) ASCENT 001E (UT) ASCENT 001F (MIT)
2017:
ASCENT 001A (WSU) ASCENT 001B (UH) ASCENT 001C (Purdue) ASCENT 001D (PSU) ASCENT 001E (UT) ASCENT 001F (MIT)
2018:
ASCENT 001A (WSU) ASCENT 001B (UH) ASCENT 001C (Purdue) ASCENT 001D (PSU) ASCENT 001E (UT) ASCENT 001F (MIT)
2019:
ASCENT 001A (WSU) ASCENT 001B (UH) ASCENT 001C (Purdue) ASCENT 001D (PSU) ASCENT 001E (UT) ASCENT 001F (MIT)
2020:
ASCENT 001A (WSU) ASCENT 001B (UH) ASCENT 001C (Purdue) ASCENT 001D (PSU) ASCENT 001E (UT) ASCENT 001F (MIT)
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Publications
- Supply chain configuration of sustainable aviation fuel: Review, challenges, and pathways for including environmental and social benefits
- Impact of Proposed Sustainable Skies Act on Sustainable Aviation Fuel Minimum Selling Price
- Biomass supply chain equipment for renewable fuels production: A review
- Evaluation of Dry Corn Ethanol Bio-refinery Concepts for the Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Strategic Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production Technologies: Yield Improvement and Cost Reduction Opportunities
- Tennessee Consumer Willingness to Pay for Disposable Dinnerware Molded from Wheat Straw
- Outdoor Home Gardener Preferences for Environmental Attributes in Gardening Supplies and Use of Ecofriendly Gardening Practices
- Impact of Government Subsidies on a Cellulosic Biofuel Sector with Diverse Risk Preferences Toward Feedstock Uncertainty
- Water leaching for improving fuel properties of pongamia Pod: Informing process design
- Estimating induced land use change emissions for sustainable aviation biofuel pathways
- Upgraded pongamia pod via torrefaction for the production of bioenergy
- Farmer Interest in and Willingness to Grow Pennycress as an Energy Feedstock
- Technological Progress in US Agriculture: Implications for Biofuel Production
- Fuel Properties of Pongamia (Milletia pinnata) Seeds and Pods Grown in Hawaii
- Land Use in Computable General Equilibrium Models
- Consumer Preferences and Willingness to Pay for Potting Mix with Biochar
- Quantifying the community capitals framework: Strategic application of the community assets and attributes model
- Estimating Uncertainties Using Judgmental Forecasts with Expert Heterogeneity
- Rank-Ordered Analysis of Consumer Preferences for the Attributes of a Value-Added Biofuel Co-Product
- Consumer preferences for eco-friendly attributes in disposable dinnerware
- Impact of co‐product selection on techno‐economic analyses of alternative jet fuel produced with forest harvest residuals
- Hydrotreatment of pyrolysis bio-oil: A review
- US biofuel production and policy: implications for land use changes in Malaysia and Indonesia
- Pulp Mill Integration with Alcohol-to-Jet Conversion Technology
- Dynamics and Uncertainty in Land Use Conversion for Perennial Energy Crop Production: Exploring Effects of Payments for Ecosystem Services Policies
- Cost and Profitability Analysis of a Prospective Pennycress to Sustainable Aviation Fuel Supply Chain in Southern USA
- A multi-criteria decision support tool for biorefinery siting: Using economic, environmental, and social metrics for a refined siting analysis
- Challenges and Opportunities for Bio-oil Refining: A Review
- Improving the way land use change is handled in economic models
- Review of Biomass Resources and Conversion Technologies for Alternative Jet Fuel Production in Hawai’i and Tropical Regions
- Airport Management Perspectives on Aviation Biofuels: Drivers, Barriers, and Policy Requirements in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
- Potential for Pennycress to Support a Renewable Jet Fuel Industry
- US alternative jet fuel deployment scenario analyses identifying key drivers and geospatial patterns for the first billion gallons
- A stochastic techno-economic analysis of the catalytic hydrothermolysis aviation biofuel technology
- The impact of considering land intensification and updated data on biofuels land use change and emissions estimates
- Using dynamic relative climate impact curves to quantify the climate impact of bioenergy production systems over time
- Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Costs of Production of Diesel and Jet Fuel from Municipal Solid Waste
- Quantifying Breakeven Price Distributions in Stochastic Techno-Economic Analysis — A Case of Cellulosic Biofuel Production from Fast Pyrolysis and Hydroprocessing Pathway
- A Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis Approach to Facility Siting in a Wood-Based Depot-and-Biorefinery Supply Chain Model
- The Alcohol‐to‐Jet Conversion Pathway for Drop‐In Biofuels: Techno‐Economic Evaluation
- Aviation CO2 emission reductions from the use of alternative jet fuels
- An Exploration of Agricultural Land use Change at the Intensive and Extensive Margins: Implications for Biofuels Induced Land Use Change
- Communities Ready for Takeoff: Integrating Social Assets for Biofuel Site-selection Modeling
- Bioenergy and its use to mitigate the climate impact of aviation
- Scenario based lifecycle analysis of greenhouse gas emissions from petroleum-derived transportation fuels in 2050
- Stochastic techno-economic analysis of alcohol-to-jet fuel production
- The costs of production of alternative jet fuel: A harmonized stochastic assessment
- Environmental and economic assessment of transportation fuels from municipal solid waste
- Stochastic techno-economic evaluation of cellulosic biofuel pathways
- Quantifying breakeven price distributions in stochastic techno-economic analysis
- Drivers and Barriers to the Adoption and Diffusion of Sustainable Jet Fuel (SFJ) in the U.S. Pacific Northwest
- Biorefinery Site Selection Using a Stepwise Biogeophysical and Social Analysis Approach
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Bioenergy