Officials from Boeing and Zero Petroleum signed an agreement at the Dubai Airshow to speed up the development of synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) made using the Fischer–Tropsch power-to-liquid process. Developers designed the SAF for use as a 100 percent drop-in fuel, not mixed with jet-A, and naturally containing aromatic compounds that prevent rubber seal damage, according to Zero founder and CEO Paddy Lowe.
“This region is particularly [suitable] for synthetic SAF,” he said, because no base of agricultural feedstocks exist in the Middle East. Other SAF manufacturing processes use such feedstocks, which are more available in countries with large agricultural regions. Because the amount of agricultural feedstock limits how much SAF can be made using those processes, there is no limit on how much synthetic SAF can be produced, he explained.
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