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Sustainable aviation fuel from Kraft lignin – Technical, economic and ecological process analysis
DLR German Aerospace Center, Germany.
DLR German Aerospace Center, Germany.
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Bioeconomy and Health, Sustainable Materials and Packaging.ORCID iD: 0009-0005-1174-0295
University of Groningen, Netherlands.
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2025 (English)In: Journal of Cleaner Production, ISSN 0959-6526, E-ISSN 1879-1786, Vol. 500, article id 144559Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Molten salt supported catalytic depolymerisation of lignin is an attractive option for the production of sustainable aviation fuel, exploring lignin’s high content of aromatic hydrocarbons. The European project ‘ABC-Salt’ developed a concept involving in-situ hydropyrolysis in salts and catalytic hydrodeoxygenation to obtain middle distillates from Kraft pulp mill lignin. This study evaluates the technical, economic and ecological viability of the proposed power-and-biomass-to-liquid process and its integration into the lignin providing pulp mill via a comprehensive techno-economic assessment (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA). The process analysis indicates a very high carbon efficiency of 78 % and an energy efficiency of 52.5 %LHV. The net production cost amounts to 1.66 €2020/lFuel with lignin as the highest cost contributor. Lignin is also the biggest contributor to a majority of environmental impacts, which increases the importance of the selected allocation method for lignin extraction at the pulp mill. In dependence of the allocation method, global warming potential savings range between 72 and 89 %, while major impact increases compared to fossil jet fuel occur in categories like water use, land use, minerals and metals resource depletion or freshwater eutrophication. Since hydrogen is essential for deoxygenation of the fuel, recovery of unused hydrogen is a key parameter for TEA and LCA results. The lowest cost and environmental impacts can be found for hydrogen recovery rates between 95 and 98 %. Finally, based on both TEA and LCA, currently a CO2 price of around 500 €/tCO₂-eq. would be necessary in order to produce cost competitive jet fuel. 

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Elsevier Ltd , 2025. Vol. 500, article id 144559
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Costs; Eutrophication; Fuels; Life Cycle Assessment; Lignins; Mills; Power; Processes; Antiknock compounds; Biofuels; Cost benefit analysis; Hydrogen fuels; Jet fuel; Kraft pulp; Pulp manufacture; Aviation fuel; Biomass To Liquid; Economic life; Kraft lignin; Life cycle assessment; Power; Power-and-biomass-to-liquid; Pulp mill integration; Techno-economic assessment; Eutrophication
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-78389DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144559Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105000022277OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-78389DiVA, id: diva2:1965474
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This study is part of the ABC-Salt project, which has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No 764089.

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