Biofuel Production and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potential

Craig Brown; Ling Tao

doi:10.2172/2202642

Biofuel Production and Greenhouse Gas Reduction Potential

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Abstract

Under two biomass supply scenarios presented in this study, between 56 and 81 B GGE/year of biofuel could be produced. The corresponding GHG reduction potential is between to 410 million 635 billion Mt CO2e/year. This volume of biofuel is sufficient to replace a majority of fuel demand in hard-to-electrify aviation, marine, rail and off-road transportation by 2050. Through pathway selection and process design, sufficient sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) could be produced to exceed the projected 35 B gpy of domestic aviation fuel demand by 2050. The external hydrogen required to produce this volume of fuel is estimated to be between 3.5 to 5.2 Mt/year.

Original language	American English
Number of pages	51
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/2202642
State	Published - 2023

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NREL/TP-6A20-85351

Keywords

biofuel GHG reduction
biofuel production
hard-to-electrify transportation
sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)
sustainable biomass supply

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