(257a) Low-Cost Waste Feedstock Conversion to Sustainable Aviation Fuel

To decarbonize the aviation sector and to meet the 2050 net zero emission goals, developing renewable fuel technologies are imminent. Aviation sector is hard to electrify due to its current status of the technology and the required energy density, and liquid fuels will continue to play a major role for the foreseeable future. So, developing technologies to convert feedstocks that are considered waste and low values provide great opportunity and converting, underutilized, wet organic and municipal solid wastes to “drop-in” sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) represents an immediate opportunity to decarbonize the aviation sector. This presentation will discuss the current status of the hydrothermal liquefaction technology to convert wet waste feedstocks and alcohol to jet technology to convert the dry waste feedstocks to produce SAF.