ANA & Japan Air Traces Utilizing Neste SAF Blended In Japan

The widespread adoption of sustainable aviation gas took one other step ahead in Japan on the finish of March. For the primary time, domestically blended sustainable aviation gas (SAF) was produced in Japan and bought by two of the nation’s largest airways, All Nippon Airways and Japan Airways.

The provision chain for the SAF was a collaboration between Finnish firm Neste, a world chief in SAF manufacturing, and Japan’s ITOCHU Company and Fuji Oil Firm. The general undertaking to mix SAF domestically is a public-private initiative led by the Civil Aviation Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).

Native SAF manufacturing is a key objective

This initiative is part of the Public-Personal Council for the Promotion of Sustainable Aviation Gas, a physique arrange in 2022. It goals to encourage the decarbonization of the aviation trade by accelerating the widespread use of SAF. It is a component in assist of Japan’s objective to attain carbon neutrality by 2050.

With plane and engines succesful and authorized to make use of SAF in blends of as much as 50% already, the difficulty is quickly changing into centered on the place the sustainable aviation gas will come from. MLIT has already set the goal to attain 10% SAF use in Japan by 2030, which is able to solely be achieved if that a lot SAF is offered and, ideally, produced domestically to cut back its carbon footprint.

Within the latest train, ITOCHU imported neat Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gas, which was blended with standard jet gas in cooperation with Fuji Oil Firm. A amount of the SAF blended gas might be utilized in flight inspection plane owned by the Central Aviation Bureau of MLIT at Chubu Centrair Worldwide Airport (NGO) close to Nagoya in central Japan.

Picture: Airbus

Three airports in Japan are SAF enabled

Chubu Centrair is now the third airport in Japan that may ship Neste-produced SAF, following within the footsteps of Haneda Worldwide Airport (HND) and Narita Worldwide Airport (NRT) in Tokyo. Sami Jauhiainen is vp of APAC for Neste’s Renewable Aviation enterprise unit, based mostly in Singapore, the place Neste produces SAF at its refinery. He mentioned:

“The primary supply of gas blended with Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Gas into the Chubu Centrair Airport demonstrates the constantly increasing availability of SAF in Japan.

“We’re proud to assist ANA and JAL in attaining their bold local weather targets with using SAF, in addition to to work with like-minded companions like ITOCHU and Fuji Oil in creating the availability chains for SAF in Japan.”

Picture: All Nippon Airways

On the airline facet of the undertaking, All Nippon Airways (ANA) and Japan Airways (JAL) have bought domestically blended SAF from ITOCHU, which might be used to energy industrial plane. ANA and JAL will use the SAF-blended gas on worldwide and home flights from Haneda and Narita airports, whereas JAL would be the first airline to make use of SAF at Chubu Centrair Airport.

ANA has pledged to interchange at the very least 10% of its jet gas with SAF by 2030 on its pathway to carbon neutrality by 2050. ANA has greater than 230 plane in its fleet, so a minimize in jet gas emissions by 10% is a major step to attain over the remainder of this decade.

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