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Federal AviationAdministrationFAA Alternative Jet

Fuel Activities

OverviewCLEEN Consortium

Nate Brown

November 20, 2013

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• Alt Fuels Relevance to FAA goals• Challenges for Alt Fuels Development • FAA Role & Current FAA Alt Fuels Activities• Near-term Alt Fuels Focus at FAA• Conclusions

Outline

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Alt fuels relevance to FAA D2025

Aspiration Performance Metrics (2018)

Sustaining our Future

One billion gallons of renewable jet fuel is used by aviationPopulation exposed to significant aircraft noise around airports reduced to less than 300,000.Aviation emissions contribute 50% less to significant health impacts and are on a trajectory for carbon neutral growth using a 2005 baselineImprove NAS energy efficiency (fuel burned/miles flown) by at least 2% annually

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Alt fuels relevance to U.S. Climate Action Plan

Actions to Reduce GHGsAircraft & Engine Technology

ImprovementOperational Improvements

Alternative Fuels Development & Deployment

Policies, Standards & MeasuresScientific Understanding &

Modeling/Analysis

2005 2020

CO2

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Challenges for Sustainable Alternative Fuels

• Feedstock Availability

• Competitive cost for alternative fuel

• Approved for performance/safety

• Environmentally sustainable

• Commercially produced

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Coordinating USG Efforts across Supply Chain

FeedstockProduction

FeedstockLogistics

FuelConversion

Conversion Process Scale-up/Integration

Fuel Testing/ApprovalFuel

PerformanceEnvironment

Assmt

End User/ Buyer

Enable Production

FAA & Defense: C/Q Fuel testing

Agriculture, Navy, & Energy: Defense

Production Act and

BiorefineryProgram

Defense & Airlines:

fuel purchase

Agriculture& Energy:

R&D grants

Energy & Defense:

R&D grants

Agriculture: Biomass Crop Assistance Program & Crop

Insurance Program

FAA, Defense, &

NASA: Enviro

Analysis

Agriculture: Feedstock Development Center Grants

EPA: Renewable

Fuel Standard

FAA: Guidance

for Airports

Facilitating Deployment and Investment

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FeedstockLogistics

FuelConversion

Conversion Process Scale-up/Integration

Fuel Testing/ApprovalFuel

PerformanceEnvironment

Assmt

End User/ Buyer

Enable Production

Agency

FAA Areas of Focus in Alternative Fuels

• Fund fuel testing to inform approval at ASTM• Environmental & cost analysis • Enable government & aviation and energy industry coordination• Additional support and studies

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High level description of agency effort:

FeedstockDevelopment & Production

FAA

Interest Role Goal

Enabling aviation growth by reducing aviation air quality and GHG impacts and energy security with alternative aviation fuels.

Emissions certification & standards for aircraft, engines; Facilitation of qualification/certification of aviation fuels at ASTM Intl; Environmental impacts assessment & measurement, analysis & analytical tools development; maturation of promising alt. fuel candidates; Info exchange/coordination; key sponsor of CAAFI.

1B gallons by 2018. CO2 neutral growth by 2020 using a 2005 emissions baseline. Net reductions of air quality health & welfare impacts despite aviation growth.

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Current FAA Alternative Jet Fuel Activities• Testing

Material compatibility Certification / Qualification Emissions measurements

• Analysis Environmental sustainability Techno-economic analysis Future scenarios

• Coordination Public-Private State & Regional International

• Tracking Fuel Use

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LignocellulosicBiomassCoal

Waste Gas

Advanced thermo-

processing

Natural Gas

Solid Waste

Sugar &Starch Crops

bio-oil

pyrolysisgasification

Terrestrial Oil Crops

& Waste FOG

ATJ-SKA

ATJ-SPK

alcohols

HDCJ

F-T Synthesis

FT-SKA

FT-SPK

Oil extraction

HEFACH

Catalytic Hydrothermolysis

Annex A2 July 2011

ASTM TF

DSHCSK, SAK

Bio-processing

Thermo-processing

Hydro-processing

Hydro-processing

Hydro-processing

Thermo-processing

Thermo-processing

lipids

sugarsBio-processing

Annex A1 Sept 2009

ASTM TF & Report

ASTM TF & Report

ASTM TF

ASTM TF & Report

ASTM TF & Report

ASTM TF

Jet Fuel

saccharification

syngas

Draft – Subject to Revision – Oct 22 2013

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Alternative Jet Fuel Pathways

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Alternative Jet Fuels Test Matrix

• Matrix is under development (subject to revision) • Need to add ongoing US Navy testing• Focusing on near-term candidates• Working to streamline process

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LignocellulosicBiomassCoal

Waste Gas

Advanced thermo-

processing

Natural Gas

Solid Waste

Sugar &Starch Crops

bio-oil

pyrolysisgasification

Terrestrial Oil Crops

& Waste FOG

alcohols

F-T Synthesis

Oil extraction

Catalytic Hydrothermolysis

Bio-processing

Thermo-processing

Hydro-processing

Hydro-processing

Hydro-processing

Thermo-processing

Thermo-processing

lipids

sugarsBio-processing

saccharification

syngas

Draft – Subject to Revision – Oct 22 2013

Res

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Proc

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Alternative Jet Fuel Pathways

FT-SKA

FT-SPK

Annex A1 Sept 2009

ASTM TF & Report

Jet Fuel

Jet Fuel

Prod

uct

AST

MSt

atus

HEFACH

Annex A2 July 2011

ASTM TF

HDCJ DSHCSK, SAK

ASTM TF & Report

ASTM TF

ASTM TF & Report

ASTM TF & Report

ATJ-SKA

ATJ-SPK

ASTM TF

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FT-SPK +

SAHEFA +

SA

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HON

P&W

RR

HONP&W P&W

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RRBoeing

Boeing

HON

P&W

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FY13 CLEEN Accomplishments• Boeing/UDRI testing of cycloparaffins complete• Honeywell demonstration progressing, LCA GHG report delivered• Rolls-Royce lab, rig & APU tests complete, final reports delivered• P&W fuel testing program well underway, two of three fuels tested

• Deliveries of 100 gallon samples by UOP, Virent & Lanzatech• Additional testing capability with BAA: 5 fuels tested by Honeywell• Robust coordination via CAAFI – Farm to Fly 2.0 signed

• Continuing testing of 6 novel fuels• Analysis, coordination & tracking• Publication of reports and analysis from completed projects• Develop COE and CLEEN II alternative jet fuel testing plans• Facilitating deployment

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FY14 Plans

Other FY13 Accomplishments

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Summary• Advancing use of alternative jet fuels is key for meeting

U.S. environmental goals• Testing & demo efforts (CLEEN & others) accelerate alt

fuel technology development / ASTM approval• Analysis efforts improve environmental impacts

quantification and decision-making• Coordination among government agencies and across

the supply chain is key to deployment• Partnership between government & industry vital to

success• Global engagement will support sector goals• Tracking use measures progress towards FAA goals