Junyan Zhang, Matthew S. Webber, Yunqiao Pu, Zhenglong Li, Xianzhi Meng, Michael L. Stone, Bingqing Wei, Xueqi Wang, Sainan Yuan, Bruno Klein, Bhogeswararao Seemala, Charles E. Wyman, Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy, Mike Thorson, Matthew H. Langholtz, Joshua S. Heyne, Aibolat Koishybay, Shiba Adhikari, Sufeng Cao, Andrew Sutton, Gerald A. Tuskan, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Tao Ling, Brian H. Davison. Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Biomass and Biowaste via Bio- and Chemo-Catalytic Conversion: Catalysis, Process Challenges, and Opportunities. Green Energy&Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.09.003
Citation:
Junyan Zhang, Matthew S. Webber, Yunqiao Pu, Zhenglong Li, Xianzhi Meng, Michael L. Stone, Bingqing Wei, Xueqi Wang, Sainan Yuan, Bruno Klein, Bhogeswararao Seemala, Charles E. Wyman, Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy, Mike Thorson, Matthew H. Langholtz, Joshua S. Heyne, Aibolat Koishybay, Shiba Adhikari, Sufeng Cao, Andrew Sutton, Gerald A. Tuskan, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Tao Ling, Brian H. Davison. Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Biomass and Biowaste via Bio- and Chemo-Catalytic Conversion: Catalysis, Process Challenges, and Opportunities. Green Energy&Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.09.003
Junyan Zhang, Matthew S. Webber, Yunqiao Pu, Zhenglong Li, Xianzhi Meng, Michael L. Stone, Bingqing Wei, Xueqi Wang, Sainan Yuan, Bruno Klein, Bhogeswararao Seemala, Charles E. Wyman, Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy, Mike Thorson, Matthew H. Langholtz, Joshua S. Heyne, Aibolat Koishybay, Shiba Adhikari, Sufeng Cao, Andrew Sutton, Gerald A. Tuskan, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Tao Ling, Brian H. Davison. Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Biomass and Biowaste via Bio- and Chemo-Catalytic Conversion: Catalysis, Process Challenges, and Opportunities. Green Energy&Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.09.003
Citation:
Junyan Zhang, Matthew S. Webber, Yunqiao Pu, Zhenglong Li, Xianzhi Meng, Michael L. Stone, Bingqing Wei, Xueqi Wang, Sainan Yuan, Bruno Klein, Bhogeswararao Seemala, Charles E. Wyman, Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy, Mike Thorson, Matthew H. Langholtz, Joshua S. Heyne, Aibolat Koishybay, Shiba Adhikari, Sufeng Cao, Andrew Sutton, Gerald A. Tuskan, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Tao Ling, Brian H. Davison. Sustainable Aviation Fuels from Biomass and Biowaste via Bio- and Chemo-Catalytic Conversion: Catalysis, Process Challenges, and Opportunities. Green Energy&Environment. doi: 10.1016/j.gee.2024.09.003
a Chemical Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA;
b Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA;
c Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA;
d National Key Laboratory of Biobased Transportation Fuel Technology, College of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China;
e Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou, Quzhou 324000, China;
f Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of TennesseeKnoxville, Knoxville, TN 37916, USA;
g COMAC Beijing Aircraft Technology Research Institute, Beijing 102211, China;
h Catalytic Carbon Transformation & Scale-up Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO 80401, USA;
i Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA;
j Energy Processes & Materials Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99354, USA;
k Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA;
l WSU-PNNL Bioproducts Institute, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA;
m Manufacturing Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37830, USA;
n Applied Materials Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA;
o Aramco Boston Downstream Research Center, Aramco Services Company, 400 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA
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M.W., Y.P., M.S., B.S., C.E.W., G.A.T., Y.R., T.L., A.J.R., and B.H.D. were partially supported by the Center for Bioenergy Innovation (CBI), a U.S. DOE Bioenergy Research Center supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research in the DOE Office of Science and led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the US DOE under Contract Number DEAC05-00OR22725. This work was authored in part by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, operated by Alliance for Sustainable Energy, LLC, for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) under Contract No. DE-LC-000L054. K.K. and M.T. gratefully acknowledge funding for this research provided by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), and Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830. S.P.A. was supported by Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) funding from Argonne National Laboratory, provided by the Director, Office of Science, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DEAC02-06CH11357.
Received date 08 March 2024, Accepted date 13 September 2024, RevRecd date 29 August 2024, Available online 23 September 2024
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production from biomass and biowaste streams is an attractive option for decarbonizing the aviation sector, one of the most-difficult-to-electrify transportation sectors. Despite ongoing commercialization efforts using ASTM-certified pathways (e.g., lipid conversion, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), production capacities are still inadequate due to limited feedstock supply and high production costs. New conversion technologies that utilize lignocellulosic feedstocks are needed to meet these challenges and satisfy the rapidly growing market. Combining bio- and chemo-catalytic approaches can leverage advantages from both methods, i.e., high product selectivity via biological conversion, and the capability to build C-C chains more efficiently via chemical catalysis. Herein, conversion routes, catalysis, and processes for such pathways are discussed, while key challenges and meaningful R&D opportunities are identified to guide future research activities in the space. Bio- and chemo-catalytic conversion primarily utilize the carbohydrate fraction of lignocellulose, leaving lignin as a waste product. This makes lignin conversion to SAF critical in order to utilize whole biomass, thereby lowering overall production costs while maximizing carbon efficiencies. Thus, lignin valorization strategies are also reviewed herein with vital research areas identified, such as facile lignin depolymerization approaches, highly integrated conversion systems, novel process configurations, and catalysts for the selective cleavage of aryl C–O bonds. The potential efficiency improvements available via integrated conversion steps, such as combined biological and chemo-catalytic routes, along with the use of different parallel pathways, are identified as key to producing all components of a cost-effective, 100% SAF.