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Sustainable aviation fuel and Power-to-Liquid

Fischer–Tropsch SAF routes from gasification and electrolysis hydrogen: process simulation, techno-economics and life-cycle assessment.

Integrated Fischer–Tropsch SAF production: hydrogen from PEM electrolysis, chemical-looping reforming or ammonia cracking, and CO₂ from direct air capture, feed reverse water-gas shift, Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, hydrocracking-isomerization and two distillation columns that separate SAF, naphtha and diesel. Figure: Alfian Satria Nugraha, 2026.
Integrated Fischer–Tropsch SAF production: hydrogen from PEM electrolysis, chemical-looping reforming or ammonia cracking, and CO₂ from direct air capture, feed reverse water-gas shift, Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, hydrocracking-isomerization and two distillation columns that separate SAF, naphtha and diesel. Figure: Alfian Satria Nugraha, 2026.

The lab evaluates routes to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) through Fischer–Tropsch synthetic paraffinic kerosene. Power-to-Liquid process models in Aspen Plus combine direct air capture, reverse water-gas shift, Fischer–Tropsch synthesis, hydrocracking and distillation, and compare hydrogen supplied by PEM electrolysis, chemical-looping reforming and ammonia cracking.

Gasification-based routes are compared with conventional waste-cooking-oil pathways by life-cycle and techno-economic assessment, and fluidized-bed gasification is modelled to supply syngas of the right composition for SAF synthesis.

Current topics

  • Fischer–Tropsch SAF from multi-scenario hydrogen sources
  • Life-cycle and techno-economic comparison of SAF routes
  • Syngas quality for SAF synthesis from biomass gasification
  • Electrochemical Fischer–Tropsch for low-carbon liquid fuels

Theses in progress