Principal investigator: prof Carlo Giorgio Visconti
Innovative Catalytic Pathways to Sustainable Aviation Fuels
With a budget of nearly 4 M€ under the NextGenerationEU program, JetZero focuses on developing and demonstrating at pilot scale a novel “one-pot” catalytic process to produce synthetic jet fuel from H₂O and CO₂.
The project’s ultimate goal is to significantly contribute to the defossilization of the aviation sector through the use of e-fuels. Alongside biofuels, e-fuels are considered the only viable medium-term alternative to reduce aviation’s net CO₂ emissions by leveraging renewable energy. This perspective is also reflected in the European Commission’s ReFuelEU Aviation program, which already mandates the gradual increase of the share of sustainable fuels blended with fossil-based jet fuels distributed at European airports.
The JetZero consortium includes Politecnico di Milano – with its Departments of Energia, Chimica, Fisica and Meccanica – as well as the University of Calabria (Departments of Environmental Engineering and Physics), ENEA (Rome and Trisaia sites), Techfem , and Innovhub – Experimental Stations for Industry. Fondazione Politecnico di Milano provides administrative support for the project.
The JetZero consortium includes Politecnico di Milano – with its Departments of Energia, Chimica, Fisica and Meccanica – as well as the University of Calabria (Departments of Environmental Engineering and Physics), ENEA (Rome and Trisaia sites), Techfem , and Innovhub – Experimental Stations for Industry. Fondazione Politecnico di Milano provides administrative support for the project.