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By 2050, air travel is expected to double in volume, driven by increasing globalization, tourism, and economic development. However, the aviation industry contributes approximately 2.5% of global carbon emissions, with no viable alternative to kerosene-based jet fuels for commercial flights. This growth, paired with the sector's reliance on non-renewable fossil fuels, poses a significant challenge to achieving global net-zero emission targets.
Aerohusk addresses these challenges by transforming an abundant agricultural byproduct—rice husks—into an affordable and sustainable aviation fuel. Rice husks, often treated as waste and burned, contribute to significant air pollution and methane emissions. By converting them into SAF, Aerohusk provides airlines with a renewable fuel source, reduces agricultural waste, and helps prevent harmful emissions.
Aerohusk operates in the rapidly evolving Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) market. Key competitors include SAF producers using pathways such as hydroprocessed esters and fatty acids (HEFA), alcohol-to-jet (ATJ), and synthetic fuels from direct air capture (DAC). Companies like Neste and World Energy dominate the HEFA-based SAF market, while emerging players explore novel feedstocks and processes. Carbon offset programs indirectly compete by offering airlines a less transformative, though temporary, solution to emissions.
HEFA fuels rely on limited feedstocks like used cooking oil and animal fats, but Aerohusk’s rice husks provide a more abundant, renewable, and untapped feedstock. The Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process, enhanced with AI, maximizes efficiency and minimizes production costs, offering a scalable advantage over traditional SAF pathways.
Our innovation is uniquely positioned to create a triple-bottom-line impact: cutting aviation emissions, offering airlines a cost-competitive alternative, and supporting rice-farming communities by creating value from agricultural residues. This aligns with global priorities such as the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (CORSIA).
Aerohusk addresses the aviation industry’s pressing need for sustainable, scalable, and economically viable solutions to reduce emissions. By enabling a circular economy in agriculture, our SAF innovation is poised to make air travel more sustainable while supporting broader climate goals.
Our Process
Aerohusk utilizes a three-step process to maximize both sustainability and profitability.
Rice Husks
It all begins with rice husks. Aerohusk sources these husks from local farmers in the Philippines and undergo a gasification process. The gasification process occurs in a Bed Gasifier and is cruical for creating Syngas, a key ingredient in the Fischer-Tropsch process.
AI
In the gasifier, we implement Artificial intelligence to control the products of the syngas so that it obtains the optimal ratio for the FT process. Using our AI model, we tune the variables such as pressure, temperature, and flow to enhance the FT process, ensure fewer unwanted byproducts exist, and more efficiently generate fuel.
Fischer-Tropsch
Finally, through the Fischer-Tropsch process, this syngas turns into kerosene by combining hydrogen and carbon monoxide to produce various hydrocarbons. We use a top-of-the market CANS reactor to enhance the efficiency of the fuel synthesis process.