Evaluation of sustainable Fuel Supplier for NF Aerospace

Abstract

This paper focuses on the study of sustainable aviation fuel suppliers. The current market is dominated by sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). It is of great practical significance for the aviation industry to achieve the short-term goal of net zero carbon emissions, and it is also the most feasible choice for sustainable long-range flight. In the face of growing market demand, traditional energy giants are striving to produce SAFs with high quality, large scale and low cost. Many emerging energy companies are also committed to promoting the commercialization of SAFs. According to the IASC Aviation Industry Chain, Royal Dutch Shell, one of the world's largest oil traders, says its SAF production capacity will reach 2 million terts by 2025, 10 times more than the world's total production in 2019 and accounting for more than 10% of the company's jet fuel sales. Neste Energy, a Finnish company, has made an even more radical transformation, already supplying SAF to San Francisco International Airport, and with the upcoming opening of its Rotterdam plant in the Netherlands, its annual output of SAF will increase from 100,000 tons today to 1.5 million tons by 2023.

Therefore, we must realize that although there are many types of SAFs that have been certified at present, most of the preparation processes are not mature and there is still a large gap between them and the market application. Considering that the new process technology can be used to prepare higher-quality SAFs and replace the existing process in the future, there may be a large risk of uncertainty in the production of rapid deployment production lines.

Therefore, there are obvious deficiencies in the current research on suppliers in the field of sustainable aviation fuel. This topic mainly establishes a more beneficial supplier evaluation and analysis system for NF Aviation by studying the output and quality of suppliers.