Clean fuel for climate-neutral heavy vehicles
HyFiT fuels can reduce the carbon footprint of heavy goods transport and cut harmful emissions
A perspective for climate-friendly heavy goods transport: synthetic fuels, primarily derived from biomass, can already significantly reduce the CO2 footprint of lorries with today's electricity mix. These fuels are compatible with current engines and refuelling infrastructure, and they result in lower emissions of particulate matter and nitrogen oxides. Synthetic fuels could make heavy goods traffic climate-friendly in the future. A team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion, RWTH Aachen University, and ETH Zurich is now presenting a synthesis route that can be used to produce a fuel, known as HyFiT fuel, made from biomass or CO2 that can be used to refuel conventional combustion engines. Here, the researchers are combining processes that the chemical industry already uses in many areas. If the fuel is produced from biomass, under certain conditions, the amount of CO2 emitted throughout the entire production and utilisation chain is just as low as that of a battery-powered lorry. ...UM DIESEN ARTIKEL ZU LESEN, ERSTELLEN SIE IHR KONTO
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