Chalk River, ON-based Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, a Canadian nuclear science and technology laboratory, will set its sights on producing ready-to-deploy, low carbon intensity synthetic diesel, and sustainable aviation fuel.Nuclear Laboratories has won $4.9 million in federal funding to develop two projects, in partnership with Calgary, Alta.-based Expander Energy Inc., Danbury, CT-based FuelCell Energy, Kincardine, ON-based Nuclear Promise X, and Toronto, ON-based St Marys Cement, that could serve Canada’s transport sector and zero emissions future.“Synthetic fuels aren’t talked about quite as much as renewables and other clean energy technologies, but they come with significant environmental benefits given their production method,” said Stephen Bushby, Nuclear Laboratories’ VP of science and technology, in a press release.“There is no shortage of carbon sources that we can leverage to produce this fuel, whether it is through direct air capture or biomass — such as wood waste, municipal waste or even agricultural waste. The infrastructure already exists to deploy them, and they require no change to engine technology.”The first of the two projects will evaluate the economic viability of synthetic diesel production using biomass through high temperature steam electrolysis (HTSE).The full concept, dubbed “e-Syn,” stems from using water electrolysis as part of an innovative, patent-pending process for making bio-synthetic fuels developed by Nuclear Laboratories and Expander.It leverages Expander’s technology for biomass gasification and bio-synthetic fuel production, and FuelCell’s HTSE technology.The resulting bio-synthetic fuel, Bio-SynDiesel and Bio-SynJet, will be comprised entirely of carbon sourced from biogenic (atmospheric) sources.  It’s ex (ICE TORONTO)

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