Integrated Design and Development of Power-to-Fuels

Dear Colleagues,

Aircraft aviation is significantly impacting GHG emissions and climate change with what are sometimes considered non-essential usages.

The Special Issue will start with a state-of-the-art analysis of aircraft emissions worldwide, their impact on climate change, a clear classification of the problem with respect to short-, medium-, and long-haul aircraft flights and an understanding of worldwide geographical status in order to understand how emissions could change in the next 20–30 years, considering, for example, the number of flights per capita in regard to the GDP per capita.

The next section will present a state-of-the-art analysis of fuels with papers on fossil kerosene and the way it is used today in transport aircrafts, SAFs (Sustainable/Synthetic Aviation Fuels), H₂ fuel, and e-kerosene produced from green H₂.

The next section will be centered on power-to-fuel solutions, i.e., e-kerosene, with papers presenting the (research) status as of present (who is doing what and where), a detail of the different technologies needed to produce this e-kerosene from green/pink H₂ and recuperated CO₂, logistical problems with producing 1 billion tons per day worldwide, questions related to the production and transport of green H₂ and the recovery and transport of CO₂ gas, the costs of this e-kerosene, and, finally, expected climate change improvements.

The global efficiency of fuel production, based mainly on hydrogen produced by water electrolysis, and including their transportation and delivery to the end-users—using, most probably, pipelines for H₂ and e-fuel transport, including compressor stations and storage—will also be analyzed. Overall, this round-trip efficiency will largely impact fuel prices for end-users.

Prof. Dr. Patrick Hendrick
Guest Editor

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• aircraft emissions
• climate change
• sustainable aviation fuels
• green H₂, e-kerosene
• electrolyzers
• production costs
• logistics
• feed stocks
• round-trip efficiency