What is Sustainable Aviation Fuel?
Sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is a biomass-based substitute to conventional jet fuel possessing similar properties and a smaller carbon footprint. SAF can be made from a variety of feedstocks. New Rise Renewables Reno uses exclusively non-food stock crops such as corn oil and soybean oil in its renewable process.
Why use Sustainable Aviation Fuel?
SAF has the potential to completely mitigate lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in place of conventional jet fuel depending on the technology a refiner uses to produce it. SAF is a cleaner alternative to conventional, fossil fuel-based jet fuel and is typically blended with conventional jet fuel in varying amounts. This allows SAF to be used in today’s aircraft fleet seamlessly without any modifications required to fuel transfer infrastructure or to jet engines. SAF produced at New Rise Renewables Reno has a lifecycle GHG emissions reduction of around 80 percent compared to emissions produced from using pure conventional jet fuel.
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