Techno Economic Analysis and Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions of a Novel Aviation Fuel from Residue Streams from the Potato Processing Industry

The EU aims to use 2 million tonnes of advanced biofuels by 2020, which will probably not be reached. Our aim is to present a novel bio-jet fuel from Dutch potato industry residues that we first produced during our project with estimated costs and GHG emissions (well to tank). In particular, two configurations (Centralised) and (Decentralised) are assessed. The preliminary results show that the levelised costs of energy were about two times and two and a half times more than those of HEFA-biobased jet fuels for the centralized and the decentralized systems, respectively. They are far beyond the market price of conventional kerosene. The main contributions to these high costs were the feedstock costs and CAPEX. In particular, the CAPEX was much higher in the case of decentralized fermenters and was not sufficiently compensated by the reduction of costs for transport allowed by decentralization. The GHG emissions per MJ of fuel were estimated to be about 30% lower than fossil kerosene.