Modern technologies for jet fuels

Currently, in connection with the gradual depletion of oil reserves, and increasing environmental pollution, there was a question about the transition to alternative fuels. With a large number of advantages of biofuels, its use in civil aviation at present is not possible due to the fact that at the moment the cost of it is higher than of jet fuel, there is no infrastructure to mass production. For entering the market, biofuels must have competitiveness, low cost, produced from non-food renewable raw materials and in quantities that can cover the need for jet kerosene. This article discusses the methods of producing of jet biofuels and the possibility of its use for aviation, as well as raw material for fuels. All considered methods of biofuels production have several disadvantages, such as raw materials, the cost of large amounts of energy, the cost of hydrogen, the complexity of the process, the need for purification of the final product. Thus, on the basis of the conducted research it can be concluded that the most relevant are the studies for obtaining fuels from biomass with the use of hydrogenation processes.