Obtaining of additive for aviation kerosene from a co-product of the sugar and alcohol industry

Abstract

Aviation industry consumes about 177 billion liters of kerosene, moving more than 25,000 aircraft and 6 billion passengers. To achieve this, civil aviation generated around 781 million tons of CO2 in 2015, corresponding to 2 % of all anthropogenic emissions of this greenhouse gas, with all the energy required coming from fossil sources. This work aims to synthesize 2-isopropyl-5-methyl-2-hexen-1-ol from fusel oil, a sugarcane industry co-product, for the partial replacement of aviation kerosene. The additive obtained mixed in 3 %, 5 % and 10 % contents in Jet A1 kerosene (QAV-1) exhibited viscosity (1,78 mm2 s-1), flash point (>40 °C) and performance (