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Spotted: Flying is widely considered to be one of the most difficult to decarbonise industries, accounting for 2.5 per cent of the world’s CO2 emissions and about 3.5 per cent of ‘effective radiative forcing’, or global warming impact. 

There are alternative sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs) that could reduce this huge production of emissions. However, there are issues surrounding the ability to roll out these SAFs on a large scale. Because SAFs are processed at specific refineries, it is often logistically difficult, expensive, and inaccessible for many airports to make use of them. This is where FlyORO comes in.  

The company aims to provide the necessary technology to make SAFs a mainstay in the aviation industry. By changing the way SAFs are delivered to airports and mixing conventional fuel with the SAFs in the last few miles of the supply chain, FlyORO streamlines the process, reducing the inefficiency that has prohibited widespread use of SAFs so far.  

The company accomplishes this integration with conventional fuel infrastructure through the deployment of its AlphaLite, a modular attachment to the pre-existing fuel farm infrastructure that can mix and create the SAFs, rather than having to develop and deploy entirely novel sites in inconvenient locations. A single 40-foot unit can provide up to 2.4 million litres of blended fuel a day, which would be enough to supply a small airport.  

Air travel is often the target of environmental criticism, but innovators around the world are working to make the industry more sustainable. Springwise has also spotted this jet engine that’s powered by clean hydrogen fuel as well as this carbon-neutral jet fuel made from synthetic kerosene. 

Written By: Archie Cox