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Market Commercialization of Alternative Aviation Fuels

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Implications of the commercialisation of Alternative Aviation Fuels are mostly associated with the prevailing conditions of the oil market and the current jet fuel procurement mechanisms. While Jet A-1 as the dominant jet fuel type is on sale in the aviation market since the early 1970’s, alternative fuels are going to compete with a highly integrated supply chain that is working to the satisfaction of airlines for more than four decades. The article describes the legal and operational requirements for new market participants wishing to supply their products to airlines as well as options to co-operate with conventional jet fuel suppliers for blending purposes in order to meet existing specification limits.

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    According to the Renewable Energy Directive of the European Union (EU RED) Bio-SPK has to meet a 60 % net CO2 reduction threshold in 2018 to account for a 100 % CO2-offset.

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    This type of refineries has been named HEFA – refineries. The abbreviation HEFA stands for hydrotreated esters and fatty acids.

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    For instance Munich Airport and Dusseldorf Airport in Germany.

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    NB: This concerns a contractual text in accordance with English law between the international oil companies, which provides the global contractual basis for the authorisation of a shareholder or a third party user to share use of joint storage of aviation fuels, and which today is deemed to be the standard model for a shared fuel depot.

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    JIG: Joint Inspection Group.

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    IATA: International Air Transport Association.

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    IFQP: IATA Fuel Quality Pool.

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    ICAO GMBM is the common abbreviation for International Civil Aviation Organization – Global Market Based Measures. (The market scheme to compensate CO2–emissions exceeding the 2020 emission level of an individual airline. The scheme is going to be introduced upon agreement of the ICAO Member States in their General Assembly.)

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    CH = Catalytic Hydrothermolysis.

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    CDM Certificates: CDM stands for Clean Development Mechanism.

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  1. Adeptus Green Management GmbH, Buchholz in der Nordheide (near Hamburg), Germany

    Joachim Buse

  2. Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Frankfurt, Germany

    Joachim Buse

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  1. Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

    Martin Kaltschmitt

  2. Institute of Environmental Technology and Energy Economics, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, Germany

    Ulf Neuling

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Buse, J. (2018). Market Commercialization of Alternative Aviation Fuels. In: Kaltschmitt, M., Neuling, U. (eds) Biokerosene. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53065-8_29

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