The South China Morning Post reported that a team of specialists at the Shanghai Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed industrial technology to convert greenhouse gases into jet fuel.
Chinese scientists are working on developing technologies to produce jet fuel from carbon dioxide . According to the South China Morning Post, this development is particularly important given the rise in global energy prices due to the US and Israeli attack on Iran.
Researchers have developed a special iron-based catalyst for this purpose, utilizing potassium and aluminum. The scientists noted that this development "offers a simple strategy for producing high-carbon olefins and jet-fuel-like products with unprecedented efficiency."
The newspaper reported that a project to produce fuel from carbon dioxide already exists in China . Feynman Dynamics, a leading company in this field, signed an agreement last October with the government of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to establish a project capable of producing 3,000 tons annually of environmentally friendly, electrically generated jet fuel.
In this context, the company's founder, Professor Hu Xi of Tianjin University, pointed out that converting complex laboratory chemical developments into approved jet fuel would be a long technical marathon .
The newspaper quoted the professor as saying: "The aircraft industry needs to issue a special airworthiness certificate to prove both safety and environmental cleanliness , while the industry does not yet recognize fuel produced by hydrogenating carbon dioxide."
The expert noted that projects to convert used vegetable oils into environmentally friendly jet fuel have been launched, but global stocks of used oils are limited. He added, "We expect that within a decade, the cost of carbon dioxide treatment will equal the cost of producing current types of jet fuel, transforming the greenhouse gas from a global problem into a stable supply of jet fuel."
