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Posted on 05/28/2008 12:08:54 PM PDT by Red Badger
With a $10-million seed grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), the University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI) will collaborate with AFRL to construct and operate the country’s first federal research facility designed to create jet fuel from coal and biomass in a program aimed at creating a viable alternative to petroleum-based fuel.
The award will also fund research into coal- and biomass-derived fuel technologies for greater fuel efficiency and reduced environmental impact.
It will be the first such research facility in the United States, and it will be available for use by any research team in the country. Previously designed systems have concentrated on the production of diesel fuels and chemicals from coal and biomass. Our objective is to define the optimal conditions under which jet fuel should be produced in order to maximize the amount of fuel that can be manufactured from these feedstocks. —Dilip Ballal, head of UDRI’s Energy and Environmental Engineering division
Phases one and two of the Alternative Aerospace Fuels Research Facility are scheduled to open at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in December. Phases one and two will facilitate the production of jet fuel using a process that starts with steam-reforming of methane.
Successful research in this area could have an added benefit if fuel producers would harness methane from landfills that would otherwise escape into the atmosphere. —Dilip Ballal
Phase three—slated to be up and running early in 2010—will see completion of a research-scale gasifier capable of producing up to 15 gallons of jet fuel per day from coal and biomass. That amount of experimental fuel will be sufficient to study fuel properties and aircraft fuel system capabilities in testing facilities at engine and aircraft manufacturing companies worldwide, in addition to those at the base, according to Ballal.
In addition, the program will be designed to investigate ways to create jet fuel with a carbon footprint well below that produced by current petroleum fuel refineries. Adding even low levels of biomass improves the emissions footprint of the overall process.
In a longer-term goal, researchers hope to minimize the number of additives needed to meet the required performance specifications for jet fuel.
Because the composition of coal varies depending on where in the country it is mined, the fuels research facility will be equipped to produce fuel from various types of coal. The gasifier itself will be designed for optimal performance using Ohio coal, which has relatively high levels of sulfur. The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, which has been instrumental in securing funding for the program, has also been working to engage Ohio’s coal producers in the project, Ballal said.
The new award, effective 15 May, extends a $31.5 million, five-year cooperative agreement issued in 2003 for improving fuels and combustion technologies for advanced aircraft and aerospace systems—the largest contract awarded to the Research Institute in its 51-year history—and serves in part as seed funding for the gasifier. Additional funding for the gasifier will be pursued later this year from the Air Force, the state of Ohio and other sources.
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The Environmental Defense Fund says ‘not one drop of fossil fuel from the US soil will be produced’...
yeah, right.....
Coal isn’t going to solve the problem. Coal is also going thru the roof, and it will be even higher if we start using it for gasification.
Biomass, would be a smart thing to tap, though, if we can do it.
It can be done of course. The thing is to actually do it so they have an actual alternative on line when they actually need it. Do it for real.
Wow, they really set their target high, don't they?
In a little over 8 years, they'll be able fill a 5-52, once.
Seems like a process decades old would have a bit bigger goal.
They should just go to South Africa and copy theirs........
Ethanol does not make a good jet fuel.........
Ten reasons will be posted on why this should not be done.
It might be viewed as reasonable now, before we start using it to produce motor fuel, but if we do that, it will immediately shoot up in cost to approximately the same relative level that oil is at.
If the process was reasonably economical, the prices for oil and coal would come closer together, but it would also mean the oil price coming down.
The lure of coal is that supposedly we have about a 200 year supply of coal. But people often forget that the 200 years is at current consumption rates. If you decide to rely primarily on coal for a motor fuel, then it isn’t going to last nearly that long... Probably not much more than our oil supply will last.
Are really for real? That aint ethanol.
Its really to bad people cant read.
Rethinking U.S. Coal Reserves and Resources
http://www.americanenergysecurity.org/Coal%20Reserve%20Report%202006.doc
This report will describe the importance of these resource-reserve categories.
It also offers evidence that the widely referenced EIA reserve estimates understated America’s true coal potential. Decision makers frequently refer to the EIA 270 billion ton recoverable reserve estimate as being America’s coal endowment but the EIA total coal resource for the U.S. is nearly 4 trillion tons and the Demonstrated Reserve Base (DRB) is nearly 500 billion tons.
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