{"id":225189,"date":"2025-11-16T01:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ethanol-plant-co%e2%82%82-can-be-converted-into-low-carbon-jet-fuel-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-11-16T01:05:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T07:05:43","slug":"ethanol-plant-co%e2%82%82-can-be-converted-into-low-carbon-jet-fuel-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/ethanol-plant-co%e2%82%82-can-be-converted-into-low-carbon-jet-fuel-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Ethanol plant CO\u2082 can be converted into low-carbon jet fuel, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ethanol-plant-coe28282-can-be-converted-into-low-carbon-jet-fuel-study-finds.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Manufacturing sustainable aviation fuel with CO\u2082 byproducts of ethanol production could reduce carbon intensity by more than 80% compared to fossil fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The CO<sub>2<\/sub> released from corn during <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/ethanol+production\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ethanol production<\/a> could actually be a valuable, underutilized resource for producing <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/aviation+fuel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">aviation fuel<\/a> rather than a waste byproduct, according to a study <a href=\"https:\/\/saemobilus.sae.org\/articles\/a-life-cycle-assessment-potential-pathways-increase-sustainable-aviation-fuel-yields-co-2-upgrading-co-located-corn-ethanol-production-13-06-03-0023\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the SAE International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, Energy, Environment, &amp; Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the CO\u2082 from <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/coal+plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">coal plants<\/a> or cement kilns, which requires a lot of energy to capture, fermentation to produce ethanol releases very pure streams containing <a href=\"https:\/\/netl.doe.gov\/carbon-capture\/industrial#ednref2\" target=\"_blank\">85% CO\u2082 by volume or higher<\/a>. As the corn plants sequestered CO\u2082 from the air, capturing the CO\u2082 released from fermentation and using it as fuel would reuse CO\u2082 without adding more to the atmosphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufacturing sustainable aviation fuel with CO\u2082 byproducts of ethanol production could reduce carbon intensity by more than 80% compared to fossil fuels. The CO2 released from corn during ethanol production could actually be a valuable, underutilized resource for producing aviation fuel rather than a waste byproduct, according to a study published in the SAE International [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,31,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-policy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}