GOLDJET FUEL

Upgrading of organosolv lignin to jet fuel.

Project team: Paul Christakopoulos (project leader), Leonidas Matsakas, Katerina Hruzova, Maxwel Moncao, Ulrika Rova

Partners: Jonas Hedlund, Chemical Technology, LTU; RISE Processum

Duration: 2019-2020

Funded by the Swedish Energy Agency

GOLDJET FUEL aims to evaluate how organosolv lignin fractions from a forest biorefinery perspective can be used to generate a liquid aircraft energy carrier in a flexible and integrated concept. GOLDJET FUEL will target several steps of the process; organosolv sulfur-free lignin production, lignin depolymerization to monomeric phenols by hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) following by catalytic deoxygenation/alkylation to produce aromatic compounds directly suitable as jet fuel or for blending with existing bio-jet fuels in order to increase the aromatic content.